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.
Federal Budget
Labor unveils major $21bn saving plan
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher and Treasurer Jim Chalmers have hatched a plan to save $21bn in their first budget.
Huge change coming to parental leave rules
More than 180,000 Aussie families will be heavily impacted by parental leave changes flagged ahead of Tuesday’s federal budget.
‘Crush the myth’: Labor’s chance to prove financial credentials
As Labor prepares to prove it can manage the economy, the Assistant Treasurer has cautioned Australians not to expect ‘handouts’ as the government seeks to find a ‘path back to surplus’.
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What the Budget means for you
FROM singles to families, sole parents and retirees, there’s a lot to take in from Budget 2017. Here’s what it means for your bottom line.
Sco-Mo’s bid to appease polls ignores Aussies at debt’s door
EDITORIAL: The 2017-18 Budget is not an election budget, at least not in chronological terms. But in the current fractious era of Australian politics, where elected prime ministers are more in danger from their own parties than their opposition, every budget is an election budget.
Malcolm has killed the zombies
THE 2014 budget was the rampaging Frankenstein’s monster which wrecked the Abbott leadership, and came close to killing off the Turnbull government at the last election, writes Miranda Devine.
Random drug tests if you’re on the dole
DRUGGIES and drunks will be booted off the dole or forced into rehab as the Turnbull government forces random drug tests on the jobless.
Finally, Turnbull casts Abbott’s ghost aside
IT’S taken nearly two years but Turnbull has finally broken free from the Abbott era, writes James Campbell.
Big banks’ anger at $6.2b Budget levy
SCOTT Morrison’s surprise $6.2b levy on big banks has sparked anger among banking groups, as they claimed most Australian workers will pay higher taxes for it.
Here’s to better days, says ScoMo
COMMENT: In a bid to restore faith with voters, the Treasurer has lifted the lid on a Budget centred on a fair go for battlers.
11 things you should know about the Budget
IT WAS worlds away from the horror Abbott-Hockey effort of three years ago, but the devil will always be in the detail in a federal Budget. What did you miss?
Calculated to blunt Labor’s attack
EDITORIAL: The Federal Budget is politically astute, and can almost be viewed as a document that was prepared by drawing up a list of every line of Opposition attack.
Play-it-safe Budget reveals real Malcolm
THE government was too timid to cut expenditure in this Budget, a lost opportunity that makes them look like Paul Keating Mark II, writes Catherine McGregor.
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