Australia set to return to budget surplus
Australia is forecast to return to budget surplus for the first time in 15 years — but there’s a catch.
Federal Budget 2023
Unnecessary: Chevron slams budget tax hike
US energy giant Chevron has broken ranks with the oil and gas industry, criticising a hike in the petroleum resource rent tax to be included in Tuesday’s federal budget.
Relief package hailed; bosses seek economic leadership
Some of the nation’s leading corporate bosses are looking for further leadership in shaping the Australian economy in the face of ongoing economic and geopolitical challenges.
Labor slammed over major tax change
Labor has been criticised for its plans to bring forward a key tax for a major industry in this week’s federal budget.
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Morrison ready to slash costs in quest for surplus
THERE will be no GST hike but the man who holds the nation’s purse-strings is only offering light income tax relief as he prepares to slash costs.
Abbott’s new age of entitlement
DESPITE Joe Hockey’s calls for an “end to the age of entitlement”, the Abbott Government has given business $500 million more than it has cut.
OPINION: This funding keeps kids alive – it must not be cut
IMAGINE a day where you cannot eat meat, fish, any dairy products, nuts, seeds, legumes and most other processed foods including bread, pasta, cereal and flour.
FAGS we cannot give up, costing us $784,000 over three years
A FEDERAL Government decision to pause indexation of grants it gives local government will cost the Clarence Valley $784,000 over the next three years.
$2.9mil for Cowper road maintenance
THE Federal Budget has seen $8.2million given to local councils for them to address maintenance issues with Cowper roads.
Budget tipped to scare backpackers
THE NSW Labor Party has warned the Clarence Valley could lose out with backpackers opting to not visit the region because of the working tourist tax.
Opinion: No need for parents to have two bites of the cherry
THE mummy movement has been at it again, this time not-so-subtly protesting the changes to the paid parental leave scheme that was announced in the budget.
Valley farmers won’t see much from new budget
WHILE farmers are spruiked as one of the winners of the new budget, the concessions apply more to northern country than to the East Coast.
Welfare cheats claim victory in 2015-16 budget
THE release of the Federal Budget 2015-16 has been hailed as a win by welfare cheats and dole bludgers.
Pitt says key Queensland projects fail to get cent
QUEENSLAND has been left with a multi-billion-dollar funding shortfall in health, education and infrastructure, the state’s Labor treasurer Curtis Pitt said.
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