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Podcast: "The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison
Episode: Episode 111: The dragon slaying budget, Secure Work Better Pay laws, Sunak is Britain’s billionaire PM and good news about batteries
Description: Van Badham and Ben Davison look at the Albanese Labor government's first budget, handed down by Jim Chalmers. They explore the three themes of keeping election promises, targeted cost of living relief and putting downward pressure on inflation interact with each other.
They also take a look under the hood at some of the big six programs including some of the savings made by stopping the Morrison era rorts.
With inflation getting above 7% the need to "slay the dragon", as it was put at the national press club, has never been greater. This budget starts the...