Budget’s $45bn bottom-line improvement, Starmer’s make-or-break moment, Trump’s ceasefire threat (opens in new tab)

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletterMorning everyone. Tonight’s budget will promise a $45bn improvement in the bottom line over three years, but will Jim Chalmers be able to boast of an era-defining change like his hero, Paul Keating? We have analysis and comment on what’s coming up later. Elsewhere a Muslim group has complained of dirty election tricks, and Donald Trump says the Iran ceasefir...