Jim Chalmers’ third budget will have a surplus of $9.3 billion for this financial year
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The third Chalmers’ budget will deliver a surplus of $9.3 billion for this financial year – the second successive surplus of the Albanese government.
This will be the first time there have been back-to-back surpluses in nearly two decades. But the forecast surplus is less than the $22.1 billion last financial year.
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