Smokers may quit over price hikes
HUNDREDS of thousands of smokers are expected to ditch the cigarettes as a result of massive price hikes and tougher limits on duty-free tobacco purchases.
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Projects in contention for $5b in funds
MORE than 20 Queensland projects worth $8 billion are in line for a funding boost, but a big-ticket item has been left off the list.
Turnbull’s $1.6b hidden war-chest
MALCOLM Turnbull will dip into a $1.6 billion war-chest hidden in his Budget to fund announcements in a two-month long election campaign that he says he will win.
Company tax rate cut needed: experts
CUTTING Australia’s company tax rate makes sense because it is too high, hurting workers and living standards, the world’s largest professional services firm says.
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Funding ripped from MH370 search
THE FEDERAL Treasurer has erased any hope of continuing the search for MH370, cutting off $80 million in funding and axing staff at the lead agency.
Budget win for disability scheme
THE National Disability Insurance Scheme is on track to be fully operational by July with a special savings fund established to pay half of its $22 billion cost.
What’s in the Budget for Western Sydney
THE biggest spend in Sydney’s west is on an infrastructure boost – with the centrepiece guaranteed cash to start planning a rail link to the second Sydney airport.
‘This is a plan, not just another Budget’
TREASURER Scott Morrison’s Budget is pre-election proof that the Government wants to quietly delay some of the Abbott government’s most unpopular plans.
Morrison delivers election Budget
THE waiting and speculation is over. Treasurer Scott Morrison has handed down his first Federal Budget. So what’s in it for you?
What the Budget means for you
THE hardest hit in the Federal Budget are lower-income parents with teen children. But childless people on above-average incomes will come out on top.
Weird stuff we learnt from the Budget
FROM the death of the duty free carton of cigarettes to the high cost of trees and the wild plan to go postal on carp, here are nine weird things we picked up from the Budget.
New $2.7m ‘Cyber Ambassador’ role
The Turnbull Government will spend some serious cash on a ‘Cyber Ambassador’ in the 2016 Budget. But what exactly will the job entail?
‘Whose side are you on PM?’
UPDATE: Treasurer Curtis Pitt has warned Malcolm Turnbull he could be punished at the ballot box if he doesn’t deliver for Queensland in tonight’s Budget. READER COMMENTS: 400+
Big end of town misses out on tax cuts
MORE than one million small and medium-sized businesses will get an unexpected tax cut in today’s Federal Budget as the government looks to small business to kickstart the Australian economy
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