Aussie taxpayers to pay $830m for nothing
The Australian government will pay a huge compensation sum to French company Naval Group over the scrapped submarines deal.
Federal Budget
Dire warning on Aussie price surge
With a Labor budget slated for October 25, Treasurer Jim Chalmers had some bad news for households crippled with the rising cost of living pressures.
Albo’s urgent talks to solve gas crisis
Anthony Albanese’s frontbench team is holding urgent talks with gas producers as the nation braces for a power price surge.
How the budget blew up in week two
Treasury has stuffed up its economic forecasting for the June quarter and now the budget has blown up in the face of new treasurer Jim Chalmers.
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Why this Budget is actually great
DON’T be fooled by naysayers, the 2017 Budget really did deliver for all of us. And for that you can thank the average Australian.
$35 million threat to tourism jobs
TOURISM industry leaders have warned the Budget could put jobs at risk if funding cuts and visa fee hikes result in a downturn of international visitors.
Labor to oppose repair levy axe
LABOR will oppose the Turnbull Government’s plan to scrap the budget repair levy, arguing it is a tax cut for the rich when the Medicare levy is rising for every Australian.
Defiant banks set to pass on $6.2bn levy
AUSTRALIA’S big banks are threatening to pass on a $6.2 billion tax bill to their customers and shareholders.
PM slams dole drug test critics
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull will stare down welfare advocates critical of the government’s plan to drug test some new dole recipients, labelling an attack on the budget proposal “disappointing”.
Govt under pressure to use Whyalla steel
LABOR, the Nick Xenophon Team and the Greens have combined to demand the Federal Government ensure that Whyalla steel is used to construct the planned Melbourne-to-Brisbane inland railway.
The Budget’s winners and losers
BETTER childcare rebates make working parents with toddlers winners, while lower and middle income families with school kids face cuts. HOW DO YOU COMPARE?
Anger as SA ‘dudded’ in Budget
SOUTH Australia has been “dudded” and “severely short changed” by missing out on any significant infrastructure spending in the Federal Budget, a plethora of industry groups and politicians say.
Bank levy ‘a tax on every Australian’
THE CEO of one of Australia’s big four banks has warned that the new levy announced in last night’s Budget will be passed on to customers.
Energy reset to keep lights on — but Kouts says SA ignored
CASH will be splashed on a big energy projects that the Coalition hopes will keep the lights on in SA — but the State Government says we’ve been “completely ignored” in infrastructure spending.
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