Australians will not get early tax cut
Hopes some Australians would benefit from an early change to tax cuts have been dashed as reports suggest a key plan has been dropped.
Federal Budget
Plan to slash ‘green tape’ in Australia
This month’s federal budget will include a $130m plan to slash “green tape” and streamline approvals for major developments.
ScoMo in radio stoush over JobKeeper
The PM has been involved in a fiery exchange on radio about JobKeeper going to companies that ‘didn’t need it’ as people struggle with the cost of living.
Budget announcement for Great Barrier Reef
The federal budget will include a major announcement aimed at helping tourism operators at the Great Barrier Reef.
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Time to focus on nation building
NOTABLE in the lead-up to this Budget is the shift from the bellicose rhetoric. Gone is the apocalyptic talk of debt and deficit disasters. Instead, an accounting treatment separating good debt from bad.
Ten-year ban to safeguard Future Fund
THE TREASURY wants to bring in a decade-long ban on raiding the $130 billion Future Fund to pay for spiralling superannuation costs.
Nasty Budget surprises are unlikely
THE first Budget after a government is re-elected is traditionally the time to do the unpopular stuff, but that is unlikely to happen this time, writes James Campbell.
ScoMo promises cost of living help
AUSTRALIANS will win a hip-pocket reprieve tomorrow to offset years of slow wage growth in a bid by the Turnbull government to ease cost-of-living pain. WHAT TO EXPECT
Crims targeted in Budget crackdown
GANGS and local terrorists will be the target of a beefed-up Australian Federal Police force in a $321 million Turnbull government plan to tackle violent crime.
War brews over schools funding
THE Turnbull government has doubled down on its education funding plan, pitting itself against the Andrews government, which claims Victorian schools could each lose millions.
Drug drivers, mobiles targets of crackdown
HOW much are mobile phones and drug use contributing to increasing road fatalities? The government is determined to find out.
Ongoing reform needed from Budget
SCOTT Morrison’s second Budget will work for the Government if it calms restive voters and delivers at least the basis of a blueprint for ongoing fiscal reform.
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