Labor delivers Budget surplus and cost of living relief

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivers the 2023 Budget

Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivers the 2023/2024 Budget in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra (AAP) Source: AAP / MICK TSIKAS/AAPIMAGE

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has promised the seemingly impossible in his 2023 Federal Budget: to ease the pressure on household budgets but at the same time to force inflation back down.

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