Saturday’s byelection in the country NSW seat and Tuesday’s budget look set to shift the political landscape and could test Labor’s supremacy in the parliament

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About an hour before the sun came up in Canberra on Friday morning, Jim Chalmers was out for a run.

In single-digit temperatures, photographers were on hand to capture shots of the treasurer, days out from what he says will be Labor’s most ambitious federal budget yet.