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Treasurer pushes middle Australia' benefits in budget

Jim Chalmers says the big program changes - cheaper medicines, tripling the Medicare bulk billing incentive and childcare subsidy changes (which come in July after forming part of the last budget) will help middle Australia.

And kids under 16 ... there are kids right throughout middle Australia and they will benefit substantially, but also we're making medicines cheaper.

Also ... we've put these caps on gas and coal and that's the big reason for the moderation in the ... electricity price increases, the household energy upgrades funds, the home guarantee scheme, the Tafe and training places, the fact that we've got wages moving after a decade of deliberate wage suppression and stagnation.

I think the divisive commentary is coming from the opposition. I mean ... Peter Dutton is a divisive figure, but he's not a credible figure.

He takes his cues from Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison. The rest of Australia has moved on from Abbott and Morrison but he hasn't. And we'll see that tonight in his budget reply. He is trying to divide people against each other in this budget.