Revealed: $10 prescription price cut abandoned
Two senior ministers have revealed a planned $10 cut in the price of prescription medicine was dropped by the Government.
Federal Budget
Albo’s budget reply: ‘Put the care back into aged care’
Anthony Albanese has put aged care top of his budget reply speech. See what else he pledged.
Reason for wild fuel price fluctuations
The price of petrol is varying by more than 40 cents at service stations in the same city. A leading industry figure explains why.
‘Band-Aid’ budget a bust in critical SA election battleground
Boothby could be the key to winning government in Australia but the Coalition’s big budget pitch may have missed the mark, according to these voters.
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Major sports up for grabs for all networks
MAJOR sporting events including soccer’s World Cup, the US Masters golf and Wimbledon tennis will be up for grabs for all television networks under big changes to the anti-siphoning list.
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.
Big four banks in Budget shake-up
AUSTRALIA’S big four banks will be targeted in tomorrow’s budget, as Scott Morrison finds ways to make it easier for customers to shop around.
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