CANBERRA, ACT, Sept. 29 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
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Joint press conference with
Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
Minister for Finance
Subjects: Final Budget Outcome, Optus, road‑user charging, support for smelters, coercive control, Prime Minister's speech, energy rebates, republic, Reserve Bank interest rates decision
Jim Chalmers:
Responsible economic management is a defining feature of our Labor government and you can see that in the Final Budget Outcome which is being released today.
In dollar terms, this is the biggest ever positive improvement in the budget in a single parliamentary term. In just 3years in office, we've been able to engineer a $209billion improvement in the budget ov...