Revealed: Election battlegrounds that got budget cash boost
A pre-election cash boost has targeted several key NSW seats in Tuesday night’s federal budget. Here are the regions to watch.
Federal Budget
What the treasurer really meant in his budget speech
Columnist Tim Blair breaks down the 2022 federal budget speech to decipher what treasurer Josh Frydenberg said and what he actually meant when he addressed the nation.
Is election-eve budget enough to save ScoMo?
If it’s working Australians who decide elections, saving at the petrol bowser will get the desired bang for vote-buying bucks. But this budget has got work to do, writes Paul Starick.
Big announcements buried in budget
There were plenty of big-ticket announcements in this year’s budget, but there were a few smaller ones you might have missed.
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This school calculator is pretty handy
YOU can do your own sums on school funding, with a government online calculator revealing if your school wins or loses under new funding plans.
Welfare bludgers put on notice
WELFARE bludgers will lose their payments for up to two months under a demerit-point system to be announced in today’s Federal Budget.
Demerit system for welfare cheats
EXCLUSIVE: Bludgers will face a driver-style demerit system in the Federal Budget which will cut off their payments for up to a month when they lose all seven points.
What’s in Federal Budget for SA, so far
EXCLUSIVE: Budget help is coming on power prices, housing affordability, health and education for SA, and $100 million to help businesses “evolve” once Holden closes, the Federal Government says. WHAT WE KNOW
‘Be more than the PM of Sydney’
THE Andrews government has reignited its funding war with Canberra demanding a bigger slice of the federal infrastructure pie in tonight’s budget.
The real point of today’s Budget
MALCOLM Turnbull and Scott Morrison will tell us their Budget is about helping the economy. It really has another purpose.
Welfare whack for middle-class families
MIDDLE-class families are bearing the brunt of the nation’s ballooning $158 billion welfare bill as the government spends more of its tax dollars on benefits than health and education combined.
‘It could be an ad for the Ku Klux Klan’
LABOR’S “Australians first” ad has been labelled worthy of the Ku Klux Klan as it emerges Bill Shorten’s office was fully aware of its content.
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