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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Sarah Basford Canales

Live updates from federal estimates hearings

It's budget estimates time. The city's top bureaucrats are ready to appear for their regular grilling by the nation's senators.

The Opposition will be trying to score as many points as it can and make the government look as bad as possible, while the government will try to run interference and highlight its achievements.

We'll be covering the most important insights over the next two weeks across the government's portfolios.

Kicking off this morning, there are four committees on: Finance and Public Administration, Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Environment and Communications and Regional and Rural Affairs and Transport.

Stay tuned.

The live blog appears below here and above the picture below. It sometimes takes a moment to appear.

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