Fed: Families $47 a week better off under budget - Rudd

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: May 7, 2008 | Copyright information


AAP General News (Australia)

05-07-2008

Fed: Families $47 a week better off under budget - Rudd

By Maria Hawthorne, Chief Political Correspondent

CANBERRA, May 7 AAP - Average families will be almost $47 a week better off under the
Rudd government's first budget.

And a one-off efficiency dividend will save $1.3 billion over four years in departmental
spending, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has revealed.

Mr Rudd gave th...

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