A freeze on Opal fares, shiny new hospitals but not much on housing: The Herald’s experts run their eyes over the budget and deliver their verdicts.

Cost-of-living relief, a stamp duty downgrade, a $2.9 billion pay bump for nurses and a secretive Tomago bailout: here’s what we know so far.

The temporary cut will be part of a suite of targeted cost-of-living measures to be unveiled in the Minns government’s final budget before the next election.