PATRICIA KARVELAS, HOST: The Federal Budget is just as much a political document as it is economic. The Greens say the $4 billion dollar surplus is political, while the Opposition says the win isn't Labor's to claim. But the key question is whether the Government's second Budget will quell or stimulate inflation and whether it does enough to help the most vulnerable. Anthony Albanese is the Prime Minister and he joined me a short time ago.

Prime Minister, welcome.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good to be with you, Patricia.

NARELDA JACOBS, HOST: Prime Minister, thanks for joining us on Midday. Now despite increases to welfare, JobSeeker is still regarded as a poverty payment. For a million Australians who are in line for a boost of $2.85 a day, how do you expect them to put a third meal on the table?

Yunupingu walked in two worlds with authority, power and grace, and he worked to make them whole — together.

What he could see was not the reinvention of Australia, but the realisation of a greater one.

With his passing, consider what we have lost.

A leader. A statesman.

A painter. A dancer. A singer and musician who always carried his father’s clapsticks and felt the power they carried within them.

Australian of the Year in 1978. Member of the Order of Australia. National treasure.

A remarkable member of a remarkable family.

ANNA HENDERSON, HOST: Prime Minister, thanks for joining SBS.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good to be with you.

HENDERSON: What would the young boy from Marrickville with a single mum think about a $3 a day increase for people living in poverty?

LAURA TINGLE, HOST: Prime Minister, thanks for talking to 7:30.
 
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good to be with you, Laura.
 
TINGLE: Your Treasurer said today that budgets are an opportunity not just to reflect on what's in the Budget papers themselves, but also on what's happening all around them. When we look at this Budget, what should it tell Australians broadly about where the Government is taking the country?
 

A State Memorial service to celebrate the life of acclaimed artist Dr John Olsen AO OBE will be held at the Art Gallery of NSW on Monday 29 May.

The Australian and NSW Governments will jointly deliver the service in honour of the late legendary landscape painter who passed away on 11 April 2023, aged 95.

With a career spanning nearly seven decades, Dr Olsen had long been considered one of Australia’s most eminent and celebrated living artists.

DAVID PENBERTHY, HOST: Good morning, Prime Minister. Thanks for joining us again on your old home here at 5AA.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, Penbo. Good to be back.

PENBERTHY: Good to have you here. So just in terms of the headline grabbing numbers with the Budget, all the papers reporting this morning, somewhat surprisingly, that Australia is going to be heading back into a surplus.

JAMES VALENTINE, HOST: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, joins us ahead of tonight's Budget. Prime Minister, good morning

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning to you. Happy Budget day, if there's such a thing.

VALENTINE: Oh look, we're all overjoyed. The joy in the streets, the celebrations, it's a little like a coronation, really here, which you know well.

PRIME MINSITER: Without the concert.

More than five million households and one million small businesses will be eligible for Energy Price Relief Rebates from July 1, as part of the Albanese Labor Government's responsible and targeted plan to reduce cost-of-living pressures.

The Energy Price Relief Rebates will provide responsible and meaningful energy bill relief and help ease the pressure on families and small businesses.

KARL STEFANOVIC, HOST: It was a big night in Canberra, the Government unveiling a surplus for the first time in 15 years. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joins us now. PM, good morning to you.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. Good to be with you.

STEFANOVIC: How do you know that you haven't just fanned the inflation bushfire?