Graph reveals Australia’s ‘great shame’
Shocking new data has exposed a problem affecting more than three million Australians – and it’s tipped to get even worse.
Federal Budget
How recession will hit Australia
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has made a major call on how the upcoming budget will handle a looming ‘blunt and brutal’ global economic downturn.
Why monster tax cuts aren’t going anywhere
The Treasurer has reiterated a controversial move will remain despite dire warnings about the state of the budget.
Unlikely winners in inflation crisis
Some Australians are cashing in on welfare changes and pocketing hundreds of dollars in the process.
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This school calculator is pretty handy
YOU can do your own sums on school funding, with a government online calculator revealing if your school wins or loses under new funding plans.
Welfare bludgers put on notice
WELFARE bludgers will lose their payments for up to two months under a demerit-point system to be announced in today’s Federal Budget.
Demerit system for welfare cheats
EXCLUSIVE: Bludgers will face a driver-style demerit system in the Federal Budget which will cut off their payments for up to a month when they lose all seven points.
What’s in Federal Budget for SA, so far
EXCLUSIVE: Budget help is coming on power prices, housing affordability, health and education for SA, and $100 million to help businesses “evolve” once Holden closes, the Federal Government says. WHAT WE KNOW
‘Be more than the PM of Sydney’
THE Andrews government has reignited its funding war with Canberra demanding a bigger slice of the federal infrastructure pie in tonight’s budget.
The real point of today’s Budget
MALCOLM Turnbull and Scott Morrison will tell us their Budget is about helping the economy. It really has another purpose.
Welfare whack for middle-class families
MIDDLE-class families are bearing the brunt of the nation’s ballooning $158 billion welfare bill as the government spends more of its tax dollars on benefits than health and education combined.
‘It could be an ad for the Ku Klux Klan’
LABOR’S “Australians first” ad has been labelled worthy of the Ku Klux Klan as it emerges Bill Shorten’s office was fully aware of its content.
Bid to fund NDIS sparks $6b search
TREASURER Scott Morrison will look to fill a $6 billion hole amid plans to fully fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme beyond 2019.
Survive the Budget with bingo
NUMBERS are hard and there are so many of them in the Budget. Not a fan? Budget Bingo can turn the dullest night into a ripsnorter.
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