'Nothing is free': Joe Hockey warns of budget pain

By Mark Kenny
Updated April 26 2014 - 11:11am, first published April 23 2014 - 6:21pm

Australians from all walks of life should brace for a serious tightening of federal government expenditure, Joe Hockey has warned but it appears it will be older Australians who will be asked to do some of the heaviest lifting in a budget repair task being cast as a moral and economic necessity.

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