Angus Taylor Budget Reply Speech Due at 7.30
Angus Taylor was due to deliver his budget reply speech at 7.30 on 14 May 2026, setting up the opposition’s main response to the budget. Matt Canavan was scheduled to follow with his own budget reply speech in the Senate after Taylor.
The live coverage centered on the Coalition response, and Taylor’s speech was the first fixed political moment on the timetable. The handoff to Canavan gave the opposition two speeches on the same day, one from the leader and one from the Nationals leader.
Taylor and Canavan
Taylor, the opposition leader, was expected to open the formal reply with the budget-in-reply speech. Canavan was due to take the same argument into the Senate afterward, extending the Coalition’s response across both chambers.
That sequencing put the opposition’s budget message in one continuous run, first from Taylor and then from Canavan. Readers tracking the speech had a clear order to follow: Taylor at 7.30, then Canavan in the Senate.
Tammy Tyrrell joins Labor
Elsewhere in the same live coverage, independent Tasmanian senator Tammy Tyrrell announced she would join Labor in a surprise move. The announcement sat alongside the budget reply coverage and added another shift to an already busy parliamentary day.
The live blog also carried comments from Tim Wilson, who denied that targeting migrants by stripping social welfare supports and tying migrant intake to housing build is politically risky for the Coalition. The remarks came as the opposition prepared to set out its response in Taylor’s speech.
Hantavirus ship update
The government also said six passengers being repatriated from the hantavirus ship had left the Netherlands. The flight carrying four Australian citizens, one permanent resident and one New Zealand citizen was due to arrive in Perth tomorrow, with medical personnel accompanying the group.
After arrival, the passengers were to be transported to the WA Centre for National Resilience in Bullsbrook for an initial three week quarantine period. That left the government response split between the parliamentary timetable in Canberra and the transport and quarantine plan in Western Australia.
