Thu 3 Apr 2025
Budget 2025: What Investors Need to Know
With an election looming, the Albanese Government’s 2025 Budget lands exactly where you’d expect: safe, strategic, and politically calibrated. It’s packed with handouts designed to ease household cost pressures, including tax cuts starting from 2026–27, student debt relief, and housing assistance.
The Budget extends support measures—but at a price. It returns to a deficit with a $27.6 billion shortfall this year and $42.1 billion projected for 2025–26. As a result, gross debt is set to climb to $1.22 trillion by 2028–29, up $283 billion from current levels.