Ministers’ embarrassing Hansard blunder
Officials claim they were first made aware of an error to Hansard – where two ministers deleted a section of a speech from the official parliament record – only after the airing of an ABC interview.
Federal Budget
Albo’s huge new promise on home care
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has made another big promise to home care users, vowing to put an end to rorting of the system.
Eye-watering cost of fossil fuels revealed
Shocking new research reveals how much fossil fuel industries receive from government subsidies per minute.
Key point missing in Albo’s five-point plan
Anthony Albanese’s bid to tackle the aged care “crisis” feels decidedly thin.
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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.
Bid to fund NDIS sparks $6b search
TREASURER Scott Morrison will look to fill a $6 billion hole amid plans to fully fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme beyond 2019.
Survive the Budget with bingo
NUMBERS are hard and there are so many of them in the Budget. Not a fan? Budget Bingo can turn the dullest night into a ripsnorter.
Gold, gold, gold for Games
AUSTRALIA’S chances at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games are set to receive a Budget boost.
Elite schools on Budget chopping block
TWO of Brisbane’s elite schools are set to lose more than $2.2 million under the Government’s education budget.
Foreigners get $15bn in welfare
ABOUT 870,000 non-citizens living in Australia are claiming $15 billion a year in welfare benefits, according to a new analysis.
Where did that spending crisis go?
OUR national debt is nearly half a trillion dollars. But that won’t stop our government from promising huge spending increases in the Budget tomorrow.
Budget 2017: What we know so far
THE countdown to tomorrow night’s Federal Budget has begun. Here’s the latest on what we can expect from Treasurer Scott Morrison who says he’s shooting from the hip for hard-working Aussie families.
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