Young families, anyone needing a doctor's prescription and people under 25 who catch the bus or train were the winners in yesterday's election Budget.
At a cost of more than a billion dollars over four years, young families will get cheaper childcare with the free 20 hours subsidy extended to two-year-olds from March next year.
It could save some families of them more than 130 dollars a week.
At the same time public transport will become free for all children under 13 and will stay half-price for those aged 13 to 24.
Most prescription medicine will be completely free from July with the government's scrapping the current $5 charge at a cost of almost 620 million.
And as for future investments, 71 billion has been committed to infrastructure spending over the next five years - that's money for building schools, hospitals, public housing and roads.
But how far does it go for families struggling to keep up with the cost-of-living squeeze?
Child Poverty Action Group economic spokeswoman Susan St John spoke with Ingrid Hipkiss
