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Federal budget edition: Tuesday, May 11, 2021

News, updates and reaction from the budget

As it happened: Catch up on all the important news out of tonight's federal budget on The Canberra Times' live blog.

The journalism you trust to keep you connected

Top stories

Shapeshift is the starkest of our post-war politics

Opinion: This budget is nothing less than an admission that in the real world, governments do matter, writes Mark Kenny.

Winners and losers from this year's federal budget

Some groups will do better than others this year. Small business and older Australians win; universities and young people lose.

'Our duty': $17.7b plan to fix aged care system

An extra 80,000 home care packages will be funded over the next two years in a bid to fix Australia's broken aged care system.

New vaccine tech, plan to create national AI centre

The federal government will redirect pandemic response funding towards the development of onshore mRNA manufacturing.

Mixed bag on climate in the federal budget

Climate activists and the oil and gas industry are unhappy at parts of the federal budget, with a mixed bag of measures for the environment.

Labor slams 'political fix' federal budget

Labor has accused the Morrison government of using the federal budget as a shameless political fix without a proper job creation plan.

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