Labor delivers Budget surplus and cost of living relief

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.

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