It is looking like Treasurer Scott Morrison will be delivering the shortest budget speech ever, or at least one with the fewest new bits of information.
A week out from the budget, Malcolm Turnbull announced yesterday a new funding arrangement of $19 billion for schools over the next decade, which was quickly labelled Gonski 2.0.
The prime minister also said the government would be building the Western Sydney Airport after Sydney Airport, the owner of Kingsford Smith airport, declined to take up the opportunity.
It came 24 hours after Education Minister Simon Birmingham announced a cut in funding arrangements for universities and a revamp of course fees and their repayment.
Hundreds of public schools are due for cash, while wealthy private schools and Catholic schools will be worse off. The Catholic education sector has condemned the government's announcement as their schools will no longer be funded on a system-wide basis.
Mr Birmingham said Catholic school students would still receive 3.7 percent per student funding growth over the next four years.
"There's even more than that going into other school. Catholic school aren't worse off," he told the TODAY Show this morning.
"We're treating schools consistently... There are 9000 schools that will benefit from these changes. There are 24 that will see some reduction."
The government is refusing to publicly identify which schools will have their funding cut, but it's believed the prestigious Loreto Kirribilli will be among those affected.
Mr Morrison has already given a broad outline of his package to tackle housing affordability, while he has said he will be re-introducing the remainder of his 10-year business tax cut plan when parliament sits next week.
It still leaves scope for a major announcement on health, aside from reports patients will be prescribed cheaper generic drugs, saving the budget $1.8 billion over five years.