Where the Budget won Facebook
IT seems we’re not all as disinterested in politics as we claim to be. Facebook’s been taking a peek at our pages during Budget week — and it turns out policy is very much on our minds.
IT seems we’re not all as disinterested in politics as we claim to be. Facebook’s been taking a peek at our pages during Budget week — and it turns out policy is very much on our minds.
ROLLING UPDATES: AFTER initially refusing to reveal costings, the Turnbull government has now disclosed company tax cuts will cost nearly $50bn over 10 years.
UPDATES: Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has used his Budget reply speech to declare his government would deliver $71 billion worth of improvements.
WOOING women and low income earners while stripping billions of dollars of tax breaks from wealthy savers is the Government’s superannuation plan for the election.
THE Turnbull Government is facing a medical Armageddon on the eve of the election campaign with an avalanche of new medical costs likely to hit patients from July 1.
THE Treasurer has had a marvellous week so far, answering question after question about his first Budget. Except this one.
THE search for MH370 must continue at any cost, an airline boss has insisted — despite Canberra’s refusal to cough up more funding.
FINANCE Minister Mathias Cormann sat down to answer questions on the Federal Budget today. See what readers threw at him – and how he responded.
A DISGRUNTLED WA Liberal MP has slammed his government’s budget, describing it as a fudged opportunity that failed to rein in “rampant spending”.
YOUNG people languishing on welfare will be paid $200 a fortnight on top of the dole to complete internships as part of an $840 million plan to get them off the job queue.
THE BUDGET holds a twist for the tourism industry with Aussie travellers to pay more for passports and airports to cop new fees.
TERRITORY farmers were left disappointed the issue of the backpacker tax was left unresolved in the federal budget last night
WERE you bored watching the Budget last night? You weren’t the only one and a seven-year-old boy summed the whole thing up perfectly.
SMOKERS will suffer a double blow after being stung with massive hikes to cigarette prices and slashed limits to the purchases of duty-free smokes.
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