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ACT Budget - Chief Minister Andrew Barr
The Canberra Times
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6/25/2024
Chief Minister Andrew Barr at ACT Budget outlook press conference
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Thank you for your interest in the budget today.
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Look, this year's budget prioritises health, housing and cost of living and gets on with
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the delivery of infrastructure that our growing city needs.
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It's framed against a backdrop of a slowing economy, of cost of living pressures being
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felt differently by different sections of the community and it brings together the work
00:30
of this parliamentary term, delivering on election commitments and parliamentary and
00:36
governing agreement items.
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The budget sets out a pathway to meet the next phase of our city's growth and particularly
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focuses on the areas that the community identified in our budget consultation as priorities for
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the government to focus on in this year's budget.
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So we had more than 1,700 survey participants in our budget consultation, nearly 100 stakeholder
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groups submitted proposals and suggestions.
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It was the most extensive budget consultation ever undertaken and I think sets a benchmark
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for this sort of community participation and engagement ahead of the delivery of a budget.
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We were very conscious in framing this year's budget that some sections of the community
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are experiencing significant financial hardship, particularly those who have seen their mortgage
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interest rate costs rise considerably and those who are in the rental market who have
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experienced rent increases.
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Although we do note the impact in the ACT compared to some other cities and jurisdictions
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has been somewhat smaller, but nevertheless we recognise some people are doing it tough
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in our community at the moment and so the budget has a particular emphasis on targeted
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cost of living support.
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We were very conscious of the decisions that the Commonwealth had made in their budget
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and so tailored our cost of living package to address some identified gaps that we saw
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in terms of sections of the community who weren't being supported as much.
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So seeking to put more resource into programs that we have already been running that were
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being very heavily—and examples of that include our education equity fund, our utilities
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concession and the taxi subsidy scheme.
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So in totality we've sought to balance the competing economic needs and community needs
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in this budget whilst investing very heavily in health.
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Unashamedly, the biggest area of expenditure in the budget is health.
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It accounts for nearly $1 in $3 in the territory budget, but of course in any ACT budget there
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will also be new initiatives in education with our local government service responsibilities,
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in city services and we have focused particularly on housing, both additional housing supply
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through an expanded land release program and a range of tax measures that make it cheaper
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and easier for people to get into their first home.
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