CANBERRA, ACT, May 13 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
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Subject: 2026 Budget
Natasha Etschmann:
Hi Jim, thanks so much for joining us.
Jim Chalmers:
Thanks Tash.
Etschmann:
It's probably been a very, very busy day with all of the Budget stuff. Do you have a highlight of one of your favourite things?
Chalmers:
Absolutely, actually. There was a group that's campaigning for us to subsidise public housing for people on Youth Allowance. There's a difference in how Youth Allowance is treated in the social housing space and we discovered that there was a campaign about it. We learned more about it, we fixed it in the Budget and we got a visit from the people who had been running this campaign-
Etschmann...