Budget reveals economy’s true danger
There is a very clear message in the budget, stay at home and keep your job as the economy takes a dive. Ross Greenwood explains.
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Explained: How Australia will avoid a recession
Australians can expect to dodge a recession despite a warning from Treasurer Jim Chalmers things will get worse before they get better.
Sin taxes: The booze Aussies are paying more for
Australians are ditching the beer in droves, but the nation’s top-shelf drinkers are tipped to spend $400m on another booze. See what it is.
How bikies, mafia and Asian triads will be smashed
Organised crime figures have been put on notice with a big boost in the federal budget to catch the organised crime crooks. This is how it will work.
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Australia’s questions for ScoMo
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Dole druggies get green light to dodge police
WELFARE recipients who fail drug tests connected to their benefits can escape prosecution, even if a drugged-out dole bludger gets in a car to drive away after a positive test.
Chemists score massive Budget boost
PHARMACISTS were the biggest winners from Tuesday’s budget, scoring more than $40,000 each in taxpayers’ money … and it was all for doing nothing.
First-home buyer plan ‘won’t cut it’
FIRST-home buyers are unlikely to take up the new incentive to help save deposits quickly after a previous scheme failed miserably, industry experts say.
Smokers have no cheap options left
THE cost of roll your own tobacco is set to mirror that of manufactured cigarettes as the government moves to deter more people, especially the young, from smoking.
Bank chiefs: You’ll pay for $6b tax hit
AUSSIES are being told to brace for higher mortgage rates and a whack to retirement savings as they bear the brunt of an escalating war between the Turnbull Government and big banks.
Turnbull wages war on ‘Big Four’ banks
EXCLUSIVE: Malcolm Turnbull has urged Australians to walk away from the big banks if they jack up interest rates and fees to make customers pay their surprise new $6.2 billion tax bill.
Pyne: Galling to claim Budget dudded SA
FEDERAL Minister Christopher Pyne has lashed the State Government for not bothering “to submit a proper business case” for one single project amid anger over lack of infrastructure spending for SA in the Budget.
Medicare levy rise: How much you’ll pay
THE average working family on $120,000 a year will lose another $600 when the Turnbull Government jacks up the Medicare levy from 2019. See how much you will pay.
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