Carrington Clarke

They're always substantial documents, budgets.

This one is particularly important because there are so many changes in it.

And there are a whole bunch of winners and losers throughout, obviously.

A lot of this stuff was well thought

leaked ahead of the budget.

We knew, for example, the government was going to be looking for massive savings when it comes to the NDIS.

We knew that it was spending more money on fuel security, something we talked about at length on FuelCast, and also about the EV, the electric vehicle discounts, being wound back, at least in the future.

They haven't been wound back entirely, but it does look like the government thinks we're getting to a point where EVs will stack up on their own.

They don't need to be further incentivising the purchase.

And on the

on the question of whether or not we would see a gas tax.

We knew ahead of time that the government was going down the reservation policy route instead.

This is the East Coast.

But it remains to be seen exactly what those details are.

And the fraught issue of immigration, the government talks about maintaining the high-skilled migration program at 185,000 places.

But given the political environment right now, the rise of One Nation, where the opposition seems to be heading when it comes to migration, I think that's going to be an issue as

that will continue to play out over coming budgets.

Was there anything in this, Steph, that you found particularly surprising?

Yes, specifically detached houses, right?

Yeah, and that raises the question, a question that we had from an audience member, from Jenny, who asked, she said, in today's discussions on the budget, I'm not hearing anything about the research that's being done.