Key points
- The government will deliver Australia’s first surplus in 12 years
- Tax offsets for low and middle-income earners doubled to up to $1,080 a year
- Christmas Island detention centre to close by July, four months after it was reopened
- A clampdown on welfare to save $2.1 billion over four years
- Refugee support services take $77.9 million hit
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