ASX snaps two-day losing streak
After a sharp sell-off during Wednesday’s session, the sharemarket unwound some, but far from all, of its losses on Thursday.
Federal Budget
Albo drops major cost of living relief hint
The Prime Minister has dropped a new hint on what Australians could expect in next month’s federal budget.
Secret to improving lives of Aussies revealed
Australia’s 2.6 million small and medium businesses could be key to unlocking the next wave of productivity growth.
Push for big pay rise for key workers
The Albanese government is under pressure to help fix the workforce problems in the childcare sector.
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The great big budget lie exposed
IT WAS the budget proposal that was supposed to improve our bottom line. But figures show that it will actually cost taxpayers more money than we could save.
Government’s $5m spending ‘madness’
TAXPAYERS have been billed $4.8m for market research so the federal government can find out what you think about the job its doing.
Here’s some more bad news
LOOKS like we’ll have to cop high taxes for a while to come, with treasurer Joe Hockey today admitting the country can no longer afford promised tax cuts.
Radical budget plan targets wealthy
A RADICAL plan to fix Australia’s budget calls on Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey to ask wealthy Australians to do more heavy lifting to plug the growing deficit.
‘Just quit the political bickering’
SOME of Australia’s leading economists and budget analysts have a bold message for our politicians if they want to get our budget back to surplus.
Why the country is in trouble
WITH everything happening yesterday, there was an important piece of news you may have missed. Here are four numbers you need to know.
Hockey: $40 billion budget blowout
THE deficit forecast for the federal budget has blown out much more than expected. What does this mean for Australia’s bottom line?
Balanced budget? ‘Well and truly toast’
RED is the new black. Any hope of a balanced budget in the next four years is long gone as the government finds it increasingly hard to pass its proposals.
Coalition of the Outsiders rules Senate
A RIFT in the Palmer United Party has rocked the Senate, with Nick Xenophon’s growing coalition of outsiders now working together to vote down a controversial bill.
Hockey’s $51b budget blackhole
THE budget woes just keep getting worse for Joe Hockey. A $51 billion-sized hole has been blown in the budget, according to reports.
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