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The Business Council of Australia wants a Trump-style war on red tape in Australia.

Axe the red tape: Big business presses for Trump-like attack on regulation

Heads of some of the nation’s biggest companies are pressing both major parties to take a leaf out of the Trump administration by cutting red tape.

  • Shane Wright

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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
The federal budget is improving from where Jim Chalmers had expected, but it is still on track to end up in the red.

Extra tax boosts bottom line, but spending leaves budget in the red

Jim Chalmers, after back-to-back surpluses, forecast a $26.9 billion deficit this year. Despite better tax collections, the budget is still awash with red ink.

  • Shane Wright

Right idea, wrong target: How Dutton’s 36,000 job cuts will leave him exposed

Getting rid of thousands of public servants in Canberra sounds like a vote winner, until the voters realise that the services on which they rely won’t be there any more.

  • David Crowe
Musk, Dutton efficiency.

Dutton’s enthusiasm for DOGE is just old tricks with a new name

Elon Musk says he can make the American government great again with deep spending cuts. It’s a lesson that could end in trouble for Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.

  • Shane Wright
The Australian dollar’s exchange rate is affected by things like commodity prices, relative interest rates and relative inflation.

The Aussie dollar has hit a five-year low. Here’s what it means for you

Why is the Australian dollar weakening, what does it mean for inflation, and how does it affect the government as it heads towards an election?

  • Millie Muroi
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Some Sydney private schools will be charging more than $50,000 a year.

Chop from the top: The Perth private schools getting a funding haircut

St Mary’s Anglican School, Hale School and Perth College are among many WA schools and hundreds nationwide found to have received up to 40 per cent above entitlements.

  • Claire Ottaviano and Alex Crowe
John Howard on one of his election campaign morning walks in 2004. The victory was perhaps the high point in his entire term.

He crushed Latham in 2004, but unlocked cabinet papers reveal the problems Howard could not fix

John Howard’s victory at the 2004 election remains one of federal politics’ most remarkable achievements. But cabinet papers from that year show it was the start of the end.

  • Shane Wright

Cost of caring for veterans climbs to $13 billion

A backlog of 60,000 unprocessed medical and compensation claims from veterans has been cleared – and has delivered a $13 billion hit to the budget.

  • Shane Wright
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

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