Chris Spyrou

But, you know, it's not as high as what he's asking NATO members, which is 5%.

Again, a bit of context here.

Will Donald Trump learn about this lifted defence ban from Australia?

Probably not.

There's a bit of context for you.

Now, the budget was light on new announcements.

The Wado was the biggest surprise.

Wado, I can't believe I've already fallen in the trap, I'm going to be saying it.

But even then, we kind of did have some sort of idea that that was coming.

It was just figuring out the particulars of it.

But there are some additional cost of living measures that have been included in this budget, especially when it comes to health.

One is around increasing the Medicare levy low income threshold, allowing around a million Aussies earning less to keep claiming an exemption from the tax or pay a reduced rate.

Yeah.

Yeah, and we'd been speaking about that in the lead up, this idea that we weren't going to be getting any sugar hits or sweeteners in this budget.

And that's really related to the whole inflation thing of like wanting to keep spend down so we don't make the economy worse or contribute to the state of affairs in the economy.

I thought we'd get something.

Did you?

Yeah.

I thought we'd get something more than this $4.80 a week tax offset.

I thought we'd get something.