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Sacha Barbour Gatt

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133 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

Think JobSeeker, JobKeeper, all of those things that were coming in and being paid for by the budget.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

So this is really in line with Labor's approach to this, which is it's more about savings than spending.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

And look, before we wrap up our budget coverage, we did think we would have a little pick through the weeds to try and find some of the more rogue announcements.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

There's nothing too crazy, but I did find a couple.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

So one that might annoy people, we're actually going to have to pay more for travelling overseas.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

I know.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

Thoughts and prayers for you.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

Thank you.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

The passenger movement charge, which we all fork out when we travel by air or sea, is going to go up by $10 to $80 from the 1st of January next year.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

Yeah, sorry.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

Bird flu preparedness is getting $11 million, which as we're experiencing and seeing with the Hunter virus outbreak at the moment, being prepared for things, it's always worth doing.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

And these so-called nuisance tariffs are being scrapped.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

So this is on about 700 products and applies to things including margarine, tyres, wine glasses.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

This is going to be cut.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

It's a productivity measure and slashing red tape.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

And it's going to save the budget $70 million over five years.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

So worth doing, I guess.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

I'm in Sydney.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

Yeah.

The Briefing
The five things you need to know about last night’s budget

All, like, so many people that I...