How recession will hit Australia
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has made a major call on how the upcoming budget will handle a looming ‘blunt and brutal’ global economic downturn.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has made a major call on how the upcoming budget will handle a looming ‘blunt and brutal’ global economic downturn.
The Treasurer has reiterated a controversial move will remain despite dire warnings about the state of the budget.
Some Australians are cashing in on welfare changes and pocketing hundreds of dollars in the process.
The Prime Minister has doubled down on plans to keep a “highly discriminatory” scheme put in place by the Morrison government.
WELFARE bludgers will lose their payments for up to two months under a demerit-point system to be announced in today’s Federal Budget.
EXCLUSIVE: Bludgers will face a driver-style demerit system in the Federal Budget which will cut off their payments for up to a month when they lose all seven points.
EXCLUSIVE: Budget help is coming on power prices, housing affordability, health and education for SA, and $100 million to help businesses “evolve” once Holden closes, the Federal Government says. WHAT WE KNOW
THE Andrews government has reignited its funding war with Canberra demanding a bigger slice of the federal infrastructure pie in tonight’s budget.
MALCOLM Turnbull and Scott Morrison will tell us their Budget is about helping the economy. It really has another purpose.
MIDDLE-class families are bearing the brunt of the nation’s ballooning $158 billion welfare bill as the government spends more of its tax dollars on benefits than health and education combined.
LABOR’S “Australians first” ad has been labelled worthy of the Ku Klux Klan as it emerges Bill Shorten’s office was fully aware of its content.
TREASURER Scott Morrison will look to fill a $6 billion hole amid plans to fully fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme beyond 2019.
NUMBERS are hard and there are so many of them in the Budget. Not a fan? Budget Bingo can turn the dullest night into a ripsnorter.
AUSTRALIA’S chances at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games are set to receive a Budget boost.
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