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Workers can resume industrial action on the nation’s busiest rail network after a last-ditch bid to thwart it failed in court.

Sydney train strikes to cause Christmas commuter chaos

Workers can resume industrial action after court win; Victoria’s assistant treasurer is brutally demoted. How the day unfolded.

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  • Lucy Slade and Timothy Moore
Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

More budget measures to come before the election: Labor

The government will spend the summer finalising new initiatives to woo voters, while striving not to further worsen the budget position.

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  • Phillip Coorey

Labor is losing control of a broken budget

Despite near-record government revenues, a spending surge is causing a big blowout in budget deficits over future years.

  • John Kehoe
Jim Chalmers and Katy Gallagher will hand down MYEFO on Wednesday.

Tax rise on $3m-plus super accounts ‘unfinished business’: Chalmers

Jim Chalmers says he’ll keep pursuing higher taxes on $3 million-plus superannuation accounts, but won’t go after negative gearing.

  • Phillip Coorey
Jim Chalmers will hand down th mid-year budget update on Wednesday.

Departments pushed to defer spending to shrink deficits

Bureaucrats say they are being asked to “re-profile” expenditure to minimise the size of deficits in time for the federal polls.

  • Phillip Coorey
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Jim Chalmers and Katy Gallagher are working in a pre-election cost of living package.

More power bill discounts likely in new cost of living package

The Albanese government is mulling a third round of power bill discounts to take to the next election.

  • Phillip Coorey

November

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been involved in the Senate negotiations.

Labor wants to ram 36 bills through Senate today. This is the list

The government has dropped plans to rush through its electoral donations changes before the summer break, but could secure other big wins in a day of frenetic votes.

  • Tom McIlroy, Michael Read and Jessica Gardner
Peter Costello accused Kevin Rudd of wanting to drain the Future Fund’s earnings for election promises.

‘Like bears to a honey-pot’: how the Future Fund got political

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ planned changes to the nation’s $230 billion savings account might be unfinished business for Labor.

  • Tom McIlroy

October

Independent Lidia Thorpe has angered Senate colleagues after her royal protest this week.

‘She likes the attention’: Growing anger over Thorpe protest

The Coalition is seeking legal advice on whether the Victorian independent senator was rightfully sworn into parliament.

  • Tom McIlroy

September

The 10 most covertly powerful people in Australia in 2024

Those who wield the most clout behind the scenes in the nation’s business and politics.

  • Tom McIlroy
Dutton said the cost of his nuclear plan would be released before the next election.

Coalition nuclear policy relies on coal for longer than experts expect

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has conceded that the Coalition’s nuclear policy relies on an extended use of coal power and a sharply increased role for gas power.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith and Phillip Coorey
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra on Monday.

Only Labor can form majority government: Albanese

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has stepped up his stability pitch to voters by disparaging the Greens as a party of extremists

  • Phillip Coorey

The most powerful people in the consulting sector in 2024

As the fallout from the PwC scandal still looms large, smaller operations are moving in on the big four’s turf.

  • Edmund Tadros

August

Treasurer Jim Chalmer says $3 billion could disappear from the budget bottomline due to falling iron ore prices.

Jim Chalmers warns of $3b budget hit on iron ore slump

After hopes a buoyant Chinese economy would keep prices high faded away, the commodity’s price fell sharply and is now trading below Treasury’s indicative forecast in the budget.

  • Ronald Mizen
Norton Rose Fulbright head of Commonwealth government, Holly McAdam.

How the NACC helped a global law firm take top spot for taxpayer work

“I think the NACC certainly has sharpened people’s focus on integrity,” says Holly McAdam, the firm’s head of Commonwealth government.

  • Ronald Mizen
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July

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton at a Paralympics event on Tuesday.

Dutton moves to election footing after budget shift, NATO snub

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has told his party room to “be ready” for an election as early as September.

  • Phillip Coorey

June

Treasurer Jim Chalmers

The final push on inflation will be the toughest: Chalmers

The final push to lower inflation to within the RBA’s target band will be the toughest, Jim Chalmers has warned.

  • Phillip Coorey
Taxation Commissioner Rob Heferen is four months into the job.

‘Deeply offensive’: ATO boss slams robo-debt comparison

New Tax Commissioner Rob Heferen was forceful in his first appearance before Parliament, rejecting criticism of a Tax Office program to chase small debts.

  • Tom McIlroy

May

Treasurer Jim Chalmers: politicians spent a long time telling voters that they were hard done by, and government was there to help.

This budget sees the return of government as saviour

Two decades ago, Australia was poised to shed the hard-done-by battler mindset. Now it is more entrenched than ever.

  • Phillip Coorey
Minister for Women Katy Gallagher.

Gender and family advocates will have to wait a bit longer

The issue with announcing a rise in wages for childcare workers is that there is a multi-enterprise bargaining process underway.

  • Sally Patten

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