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Australia politics live: NSW to lower road toll cap and Queensland to promise infrastructure in today’s state budgets
Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Krishani Dhanji with the main action. It’s a busy day for political types. Canberra is hurtling towards its winter break as Labor scrambles to do deals to get its major tax and NDIS reforms through the Senate. And it’s budget day in two big states: Queensland and New South Wales. We’ll bring you all the news once the lockups end but, in the meantime, as usual, there are pre-announcements and promises to pore over: a little toll relief in Sydney, sometimes dubbed the world’s most tolled city , and a hint to expect a lot of hard hats in Queensland with an infrastructure-focused plan.