The big problem with the $80K tax cut
PEOPLE who earn more than $80,000 a year are the only Aussies to receive an income tax cut in the Budget. But here’s why the government is unlikely to win any votes from it.
PEOPLE who earn more than $80,000 a year are the only Aussies to receive an income tax cut in the Budget. But here’s why the government is unlikely to win any votes from it.
WE’VE trawled through the Budget to find all the things the government is spending your money on – and other hidden nasties.
IN EVERY Budget there are those who win big and those who lose out. This time, women are among the winners.
TERRITORY farmers were left disappointed the issue of the backpacker tax was left unresolved in the federal budget last night
WERE you bored watching the Budget last night? You weren’t the only one and a seven-year-old boy summed the whole thing up perfectly.
THE Northern Territory has missed out on any big spending in the 2016 Federal Budget — less than two months out from the anticipated July 2 election
HOW should you feel about the 2016 Budget? In one word: suspicious. Some things, like the lines in this graph, just don’t add up.
EVERYONE from the young and struggling to the much older and more comfortable have been impacted by the Budget.
IT’S the big thing news.com.au readers struggle with every day. But indications are it’s not something that will be fixed in today’s Budget.
OPINION: There are plenty of Liberal and Nationals MPs who will be staring at Wednesday’s newspapers hoping the Treasurer was right when he made this claim during his maiden Budget speech.
THE Treasurer has handed down a divisive Budget and the internet has responded as you might expect it to respond.
ANALYSIS: This Budget has been skilfully prepared, and it will help the Government in the looming election contest.
WANT to be a Budget expert, but can’t be bothered taking the next month off in order to read all the papers? This guide will give you all you need to know.
THE waiting and speculation is over. Treasurer Scott Morrison has handed down his first Federal Budget. So what’s in it for you?
YOU can work out exactly how the Budget will impact you in real money terms using our Budget calculator.
WORKING parents face paying more out-of-pocket child care fees after a much-spruiked “fairer’’ subsidy was put on ice, but there could be a silver lining in the form of an election pledge.
SCOTT Morrison’s election year Budget is a multi-billion dollar juggling act that could save the govt – or sink it.
ABOUT 120,000 young Queenslanders considered “vulnerable’’ will be recruited into a $750 million training scheme to help them into the workforce, but there’s a catch.
THE Budget may as well be a bag full of nothing for all the good it will do these Australians.They always miss out.
BUYING a pack of cigarettes is going to cost a whole lot more after tonight’s Budget.
IT’S the issue that inspires protests and sparks fierce political fights, and you haven’t heard any ministers crowing about it in the lead-up to the Budget.
OUR five-cent coin actually costs six cents to make. And today might be the day this annoying piece of shrapnel is killed off.
REBECA Carro narrowly escaped with her life when she fled a violent 10-year relationship. She’s worried funding cuts will mean other women won’t be so lucky.
TODAY the Turnbull Government will deliver its first Budget. But with words and phrases like surplus and deficit thrown around, it’s no wonder some of us are confused.
ON THE day Labor was set to attack the Coalition over its Budget, the Opposition has had to explain a $19 billion shortfall in its calculations.
BAD news Australia, the government has decided you’re not going to get an extra couple of dollars in your pay packet. On the plus side, you’re saving the economy.
LABOR today ambushed and embarrassed the Government — by agreeing to do what it wanted.
MR Morrison told reporters in Canberra today that “choosing welfare is not the career we want for” young people.
TAXPAYERS are forking out $87 million every day for the upkeep of our defence forces — and analysts are warning the figure will blow out even further within six years.
AS THE Abbott Government enjoys a bump in the polls for its self-styled ‘fairness’, new modelling suggests we may have been misled.
A FORMER Labor heavyweight says Bill Shorten’s days are numbered, but has the party really turned against him already?
FAMILIES could end up being more than $1.5 billion a year worse off as a consequence of the combined effect of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s first two budgets.
EXPERTS have warned that Treasurer Joe Hockey’s crackdown on multinational tax avoidance is doomed to be the ‘Mining Tax 2.0’.
CHRIS Bowen has taken Tony Abbott’s bait and wants to fight head on about superannuation.
THE Federal Government could end up spending more on childcare subsidies for new mums than if it had allowed them to stay home for an extra 18 weeks on maternity leave.
IT’S one of the headline measures in the Abbott government’s Budget, with $20 million in funding. But the people it’s supposed to benefit don’t want it.
WHY is it so hard to open more child care centres in areas where parents are crying out for extra services? And will the new Budget measures help?
THE Federal Budget has generated positive buzz for the government, but Anthony Keane warns Australia is not facing up to the stark reality of its financial future.
THE cost of some cars will almost halve for eligible businesses and sole traders following the recent Federal Budget. Here are the vehicles they’ll be looking at.
FAMILIES are facing gap fees of up to $75 for their child’s dental care after Federal Government froze indexation of Medicare rebates in the budget.
WITH so many sweeping changes announced in the Budget, it’s easy to lose track. Here are the hidden nasties (and surprise sweeteners) that you may have missed.
BILL Shorten has vowed to slash small business tax to an historical low of 25 per cent in a challenge to the Government’s 1.5 per cent cut announced in the budget.
EVERYONE’S talking about the benefits, but there is a very big problem with the centrepiece of Joe Hockey’s budget that hasn’t been touched on yet.
BILL Shorten has made a surprise pitch to business by calling for company tax to be slashed 5 per cent in a big-spending Federal Budget reply.
OUT-of hours health care is set to become chaotic with the popular GP helpline to be axed and at least one after-hours service threatening to close.
BILL Shorten tonight launched Labor’s plan to harness technological innovation through specialist training to create the jobs of the coming two decades.
IT’S not just small business — and big retailers — who are happy about Joe Hockey’s second budget. The Treasurer has won over a surprising group.
HE’S under pressure to show the country he’s ‘got what it takes’ to be Prime Minister. Tonight, Bill Shorten will have our full attention.
OPPOSITION leader Bill Shorten will deliver his budget reply speech tonight. Here’s his plan to attack the government.
BILL Shorten has vowed to support the Government’s $5.5 billion small business package, but will block a bid to end paid parental leave double-dipping.
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