‘Didn’t speak to the important issues’: Labor’s budget met with ‘disappointment’

The Albanese government’s third federal budget was met “resoundingly with disappointment”, says Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume. “Not just from the Coalition obviously, but from economists and from commentators right around the world,” Ms Hume told Sky News Australia. “Indeed, I’ve never seen such a poor response to a budget as we saw on Wednesday morning’s newspapers after Tuesday night. “You can understand why – it simply didn’t speak to the important issues to ordinary Australians who are really doing it tough.”