CANBERRA, ACT, May 19 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
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Subjects: 2026 Budget, free access to mandatory standards for tradies, tax reform, alcohol excise
Jim Chalmers:
A really big thank you to James and his colleagues here at BM Sydney Materials for welcoming us here in Cabramatta. We're here with Anne Stanley and Tu Le, 2 wonderful Labor people and supporters of small business and the housing industry in this wonderful part of suburban Sydney.
The Budget was about housing, about building more homes, about dealing with youth homelessness, about making the tax system fairer for more aspirational young people in our society and also about helping builders with compliance costs. The reason we're here tal...