CANBERRA, ACT, May 3 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:
JANE NORMAN, HOST:Prime Minister, thanks for your time.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER:Hey, good to be with you.
NORMAN:Let's get straight to the Budget. You've said this is one of the toughest that you'll be handing down. Just how much has it had to change just in the past couple of months?
PRIME MINISTER:We live in an extraordinarily challenging time and the circumstances around the war in the Middle East are having an impact here, and how it ends is still uncertain. So, that of course has meant that we've had to frame the Budget later than usual and that there's an element of uncertainty there going forward. But that's politics. You have to ...