Stamp duty ban can solve housing crisis
Proposed moves such as a rental freeze and price caps won’t likely solve our rental and housing affordability crisis but a moratorium on stamp duty can.
Federal Budget 2023
Whyalla’s blue steel plant on track for $2bn green makeover
A hydrogen power plant at Whyalla is ready to snare a share of $2bn in budget funds to produce green steel, among the major wins for cash splashes in SA.
‘Biggest bugbear’: Power cashback on way for South Aussie battlers
Around half of all South Australian households and tens of thousands of small businesses will get a cashback to help with their energy bills. See if you’re eligible and how much you’ll get.
‘Betrayal’: Treasurer reacts to $300bn tax cuts
Critics have blasted the government for committing to a $300 billion tax vow while Aussies are struggling.
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‘Sacrificed on the altar’: Nationals leader says bush will be dudded
Regional Australia will be left feeling like “forgotten Australians” when Treasurer Jim Chalmers hands down his budget Tuesday night, Nationals leader David Littleproud has predicted.
Labor’s bid to end male and female ‘dominated’ jobs
Australia’s heavily male or female-dominated industries will be a thing of the past under a new budget approach that considers how every taxpayer dollar spent impacts job take up in sectors like engineering, teaching and health care.
‘Secret $3k tax’ to hit Aussie homeowners
All Aussie households with a mortgage are set to get hit with more than $3k per year more of costs as a result of the Federal Budget according to a shock new study.
Cash roadblock could put Australia’s major projects in danger
Cost blowouts and underfunding of major infrastructure projects will be reviewed to justify cuts or construction delays for roads deemed not nationally significant.
‘Decades of delays’: Audit puts brakes on road projects
A snap audit has thrown into doubt the future of at least half a billion dollars of SA road investments, sparking concerns the state could be set back by decades.
$700 a second: Australia’s staggering interest bill revealed
Servicing Australia’s trillion-dollar debt will cost $110bn in interest over the next five years, new Treasury figures show.
Gallagher puts heat on ministers as budget looms
Labor ministers will have to scour their own departments for savings and existing funds to finance future new ideas and pet projects under a permanent cycle of budget repair.
Road deal sealed: Funding to continue on N-S corridor
The federal government will maintain a 50:50 funding split with SA for the final stage of the North-South Corridor, even with a higher price and new national infrastructure review.
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