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Peter Dutton, right, and Angus Taylor won’t be going to the election with a tax cuts promise.

Coalition rules out income tax cuts as Dutton scrambles to find savings

The opposition razor gang of Dutton and his senior MPs is still working out how to slash 36,000 public servants hired by Labor, as it prepares for Anthony Albanese to call the election.

  • Paul Sakkal

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Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor and Treasurer Jim Chalmers in question time on Tuesday.

Free business lunch fight devolves into business battle

A Coalition plan to give businesses a free lunch has turned into a battle over the cost to the budget and whether small businesses are growing in number.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
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The $1.6b sandwich: Labor calculates bill for Dutton’s free-lunch pledge

The Coalition has yet to reveal the cost of its plan to allow small businesses to claim a tax deduction on work lunches. Labor says it will bust the budget.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
Protesters gather outside the Northern Beaches Council meeting.

Liberals using ratepayers’ pain for political gain

The NSW Liberal Party is stating that if they had not made a mess of nominating Liberal Party candidates in the last local government elections on the northern beaches, the proposed 40 per cent rate rise would not be happening.

Angus Taylor and Peter Dutton.

Coalition MPs want Trump-style ‘Australia first’ economics pitch

Conservative critics say the Coalition’s economic agenda is tissue-thin. There are mounting calls to go big and bold before the Reserve Bank lowers interest rates.

  • Paul Sakkal
Treasurer Jim Chalmers at a press conference on the MYEFO data this week in Canberra.

Public patience wearing thin on Labor’s economic vision

The question is whether the treasurer’s talk of a soft landing will convince voters that the government is doing enough to alleviate the hardship they are experiencing.

  • The Age's View
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The nation has lost its horsepower. Why? Because our leaders are too scared to act

The mid-year economic update is a dismal portrait of a mediocre nation, but both sides of politics are culpable.

  • David Crowe
Treasurer Jim Chalmers at the press conference announcing the budget update

‘We’ve been vindicated’: Chalmers says government spending has saved the nation from recession

After coming under fire from for his mid-year budget update, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says: “We’ve rejected this free advice that says slash and burn in the budget”.

  • Shane Wright and David Crowe
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton with Coalition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien (left) and Nationals leader David Littleproud to launch their nuclear plan in Brisbane last week.

Is Angus Taylor really claiming nuclear power will cut power bills by 44 per cent?

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and shadow treasurer Angus Taylor have said their nuclear energy plan will cut power bills by 44 per cent. But experts say this cannot add up.

  • Mike Foley
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Might look like Chalmers is spending like a drunken sailor, but this is what’s really going on

Both sides know the current system, reliant on the nation’s army of wage slaves, is failing the economy and future generations.

  • Shane Wright

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