Hello and welcome to our federal politics live blog! It’s great to have you join us early this Thursday morning.
I’m Josh Boscaini, joining you live from Parliament House in Canberra, here and ready to bring you all of today’s federal politics news.
Independent MPs Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender have launched a new centrist political party named Community Strong Australia. We’ll hear more about that a little later.
The prime minister will this morning deliver an address to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) for the State of the Nation address.
And the government’s budget bill will go to a vote in the Senate this afternoon, following that deal between Labor and the Greens to pass the legislation through the upper house.
There’s lots happening today, so let’s get right into it!
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