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’.
An MP has vowed the budget will alleviate the cost of living strain on Parramatta where exponential growth has inflamed rents as high as 25 per cent. Find out the worst-hit suburbs.
Australia’s embattled National Broadband Network will receive a big upgrade in the upcoming federal budget, with wi-fi access to improve for millions.
Australia has one advantage over international economies for avoiding a recession, the Reserve Bank deputy governor says.
DRUGGIES and drunks will be booted off the dole or forced into rehab as the Turnbull government forces random drug tests on the jobless.
IT’S taken nearly two years but Turnbull has finally broken free from the Abbott era, writes James Campbell.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
THE military will be deployed to the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games to provide millions of dollars worth of ‘niche capability’.
WHYALLA steelmaker Arrium is poised to win big from the construction of a $8.4 billion inland railway line as part of an ambitious increase in federal infrastructure spending.
THE average Aussie is asset-rich, cash-poor, frustrated and disenchanted … so is this Budget the answer to all our financial woes?
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