'Highway to hell': Labor's first budget

10/25/22 • 13 min

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Surging inflation, rising unemployment and a debt mountain that's becoming more expensive with each passing month: the first Labor budget in a decade is a bracing read. Seven months ago, the Treasurer Jim Chalmers' predecessor was promising everyone would be a winner. So what changed? Today, the ABC's business editor, Ian Verrender, on the treacherous landscape ahead for Australian households. Featured: Ian Verrender, ABC business editor

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