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The federal budget will include $10 billion in funding for infrastructure projects to be spent over the next decade.
The funding aims to make roads safer, reduce travel times and support thousands of jobs.
The government has detailed where half the money will be spent, with the remainder to be announced in Tuesday night s budget.
Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said the extra funding was a key plank of the government s plan to help Australia bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic. More money for infrastructure means more jobs, more local procurement and a better future for businesses across the country, Mr McCormack told reporters in Canberra.
All aboard the Frydenberg post-budget shuttle
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Big week in Canberra this week for the Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and the Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese.
Credit:Illustration: John Shakespeare
It is budget 2021 on Tuesday and a packed roster of events will see both of the main federal political parties hard at work rattling the tin ahead of the next election. So it’s good to see the national carrier Qantas is doing what it can to ease some of the logistical burden.
The airline has pushed back its last Canberra-to-Melbourne flight on Thursday to 8.35pm so that MPs and corporate types can stick around to hear Opposition Leader
Ahead of Budget night Treasurer Josh Frydenberg joins Kieran Gilbert on
Sunday Agenda today.
The Treasurer has granted unprecedented access to his home in Melbourne. Former Prime Minister John Howard also joins for his insight into Frydenberg’s Budget blueprint and political ascendancy.
Further coverage and analysis begins on SKY News on Tuesday.
Then on Tuesday 11 May, the countdown to the Treasurer’s Budget address begins at 5:30am with Peter Stefanovic on First Edition.
From 9:00am, Laura Jayes will be joined by leading economists to discuss the potential market and economic impact of the Government’s package during AM Agenda.
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Meanwhile, Opposition Leader
Anthony Albanese was also putting in the hard yards, arriving at consultancy firm EY’s Sydney harbourside offices at the same time armed with several staff and a piece of kit that turned out to be his trusted portable autocue.
The travelling autocue, not a new thing apparently, helped the Opposition Leader slam his rival as “the Prime Minister who doesn’t hold a hose … ” He also pitched Labor to the room as a party which had learnt lessons from its election defeat, telling the crowd: “We had 282 fully costed policies … probably a tad too many.” You think?