Albanese delivers budget speech and Sydney reports new virus locations – as it happened

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10.38am BST

On that note, we are going to close off the blog. We will be back very early tomorrow for the last day of the Senate sitting.

And of course, we'll have all your Covid news as well.

10.33am BST

Mike Bowers was in the chamber: