No

The budget not only discriminates against women (lack of childcare action- subsidise a job to enable another job), it also dinscriminates against anyone over 35.

No I don't think it will achieve what the P.M. and Treasurer claim. They have concentrated on finance to businesses to improve what they consider productivity. Seems fine but for the fact that business will only pick up once spending picks up when the ordinary person has both money in their pocket and confidence in their own future.

We could have the greatest level of productivity in the World but it won't mean a thing unless people spend money. In fact business won't spend on any productivity improvements until they are also confident that demand for their products is already there.

There is a real possibility that any improvement in productivity could mean a loss of jobs which runs counter to increasing demand. Probably the thinking is that an increase in productivity will come about through making people work harder, or as they woulkd say, more efficiently. Which is window dressing for cutting back wages and conditions.

The budget isn't much use to anyone, except those under 35 who are on Jobseeker.

The tax cuts have been mis-represented and will be next to useless except for those in the top tax bracket.

The govt proved they were anti-women when they refused to give JobKeeper to casual teachers, who are mainly women.

As usual, the budget was a lot of spin/smoke and mirrors and of no great benefit to anyone except the big end of town,

 Money to help employ apprentices -- FOR 1 YEAR!  apprenticeships are for 4 or 5 years!

"Who do you think the budget most favours? Regardless of whom it favours, do you think it has the potential to achieve its goal of creating jobs and pulling us out of the pandemic recession?"

Firstly a small correction; Sixty per cent of the jobs that have come back are jobs that are filled by women.

I don't believe that the budget favours either gender and I note that Labor and women's groups have made those claims without much substance. The main area of concern by Labor and women's groups is childcare. Labor wants "free" childcare but won't elaborate as to how much that would cost. Just as there is no such thing as a free lunch, there is no free childcare as the owners and staff in childcare centres need to be paid and "free" childcare means that the user doesn't pay directly but the cost is shared by all taxpayers regardless of whether they have children in childcare or not.

Only time will tell if the budget works and it must be remembered that none of us has lived through a pandemic and there is no blueprint for recovery. I note that a lot of the planning hinges on a vaccine by the end of 2021 and this looks promising but there are no guarantees. Labor's response was interesting, after claiming in previous days that the government was spending too much, their response was to spend more and just like the unloseable election Labor won't tell anyone what their policies will cost.

A lot of this budget is biased towards the high earners which you would expect as politicians are in that bracket.