The Albanese government has handed down its first budget, which Treasurer Jim Chalmers has called "a difficult budget, for difficult times".

With rising inflation, growing cost-of-living pressures and electricity costs forecast to increase by 56 per cent in the next two years, what support has the government offered Australians?

Guardian Australia's editor Lenore Taylor joins Patricia Karvelas and Fran Kelly to unpack Budget 2022.