2025/26 Federal Budget

I will begin by making the usual but important comment in that it must kept in mind that the Budget is just a series of announcements.

Bills still have to be put before the House of Representatives and then passed by the Senate.  Some bills may pass quickly.  Others may take a while to pass or be substantially modified.  Or on rare occasions, not even passed.

And of course we have an election looming.

As you will have heard many times already, there are few announcements.  One analysis briefing scheduled for the usual hour didn’t even get to the half hour mark!

Of more interest is what was not in the Budget.  We will address those in our analysis paper which we will release on Monday.

In the meantime, here is our initial Budget briefing paper:-

MRS Initial Budget paper 2025-26

We welcome any questions you have (particularly after you read our Budget analysis paper to be issued on Monday).