May 2024
- Exclusive
- Federal budget
BCA quits big-spending welfare advisory board
The Business Council, representing top 100 CEOs, has left the government’s Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee, arguing it put insufficient priority on workforce participation.
- Phillip Coorey
April 2024
Chalmers cautions on calls for welfare cash splash
Releasing a new expert report, Treasurer Jim Chalmers cautions extra help for Australians doing it tough had to be weighed against other fiscal challenges.
- Tom McIlroy
June 2023
Business leaders take out King’s Birthday honours
Entertainer Barry Humphries, long-time Labor MP Jenny Macklin and medical researchers Caroline Bower and Glenda Halliday topped the awards.
- Tom McIlroy
April 2023
Single parent payment to be restored until kids in high school
The Albanese government is considering paying single parents extra welfare until their youngest turns at least 13, up from the current age of eight.
- Phillip Coorey
Labor MPs join growing calls to increase the dole
Four federal Labor MPs have broken ranks to join calls for the government to increase JobSeeker payments by $24 billion. The government may shift a little.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Labor has made a rod for its own back with the welfare committee
Treasurer Jim Chalmers had been sitting – and sweating – on the welfare report by the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee for weeks. It’s little wonder he tried to bury it.
- Phillip Coorey
March 2023
- Exclusive
- Public housing
Albanese under pressure to fix Julia Gillard’s single mum pension cut
A welfare advisory committee has recommended the government atone for Julia Gillard stripping single mothers of parenting payments.
- Phillip Coorey