Budget calculator: Find out what you’ll get
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ first budget isn’t exactly brimming with benefits or handouts. Find out how it will affect you using our budget calculator.
Federal Budget
Significant change to paid parental leave
It’s being described as “the biggest expansion to paid parental leave” since the system was introduced – and it gives parents far more flexibility.
‘Big, bold’: Dramatic new housing plan
The federal budget includes a brand new housing scheme, and the government hopes it will start to transform Australia’s expensive property market.
$1 billion plan to boost tradie numbers
More young Aussies will be encouraged to become tradies as part of a billion-dollar push in Tuesday’s federal budget.
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PM flags early poll over Budget
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has flagged an early election if the Senate does not bend to his will.
Treasurer’s wife wears Carla Zampatti
YOU can buy a $750 dress or you can go to the doctor 107 times under Hockey’s new measures. Is it a bad look for his wife to wear a frock valued at $750 on Budget day?
‘Why I can’t afford to leave uni’
THEY’RE over-qualified, desperate and struggling to find work. Many Australian uni graduates are in a jobseeker crisis, and the new Budget isn’t helping.
Budget’s sneaky health fund rise
MORE than 400,000 health fund members will lose up to $1,500 in government health fund tax rebates under a sneaky move in the budget.
Howard: Budget ‘had to be done’
FORMER prime minister John Howard has given his verdict on the Federal Budget, saying it would make us “lean without being mean”.
‘Sleepy’ Clive naps in Parliament
BUDGET day is a long and late one for MPs, and Clive Palmer has told of how his first Federal Budget took its toll on him.
Furious Shorten’s wild Budget spray
THAT was intense. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has totally teed off in response to the Federal Budget. Who knew he had a personality?
Hockey’s awkward TV interview
TONY Abbott defends Joe Hockey after Nine’s Laurie Oakes put the Treasurer on the spot on live TV this morning. Big time.
The Budget clangers you didn’t notice
FOREIGN aid, immigration, the arts. You know the main things in this year’s Budget, but what about the things you missed? Here are the clangers you didn’t notice.
Who really is the grumpy granny?
THE fiery pensioner who grilled PM Tony Abbott over his unpopular Budget on live TV this morning is not who she seems.
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