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Think JobSeeker, JobKeeper, all of those things that were coming in and being paid for by the budget.
So this is really in line with Labor's approach to this, which is it's more about savings than spending.
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.
There's nothing too crazy, but I did find a couple.
So one that might annoy people, we're actually going to have to pay more for travelling overseas.
I know.
Thoughts and prayers for you.
Thank you.
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.
Yeah, sorry.
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.
And these so-called nuisance tariffs are being scrapped.
So this is on about 700 products and applies to things including margarine, tyres, wine glasses.
This is going to be cut.
It's a productivity measure and slashing red tape.
And it's going to save the budget $70 million over five years.
So worth doing, I guess.
I'm in Sydney.
Yeah.
All, like, so many people that I...