WITH the delivery of the Federal Budget on Tuesday by Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, regional and rural communities along with a long list of agencies and associations have had time to consider the details and how they will impact their lives.

Mr Chalmers began his speech to Parliament laying out bullet points of the government’s aims for the next 12 months, promising a $4.2 billion surplus and “less debt and smaller deficits compared with recent budgets”.