Brace for reduced spending in budget update: Chalmers

BUDGET UPDATES AND HEALTH AGREEMENTS

It was a week, wasn’t it? Anyone hoping the news cycle will slow down as we get closer to the Christmas holidays will have to wait a while longer.

As the government looks back on a week in which a world-leading social media ban was almost overshadowed by the never-ending story about MPs’ spending, it knows there is more work to be done before anyone gives up the tools.