‘Time bomb’: Australia’s $680m disaster
A neglected problem at the core of Australia’s property market is causing increasingly disastrous consequences, new research shows.
Federal Budget
Ministers’ embarrassing Hansard blunder
Officials claim they were first made aware of an error to Hansard – where two ministers deleted a section of a speech from the official parliament record – only after the airing of an ABC interview.
Albo’s huge new promise on home care
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has made another big promise to home care users, vowing to put an end to rorting of the system.
Eye-watering cost of fossil fuels revealed
Shocking new research reveals how much fossil fuel industries receive from government subsidies per minute.
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Gold, gold, gold for Games
AUSTRALIA’S chances at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games are set to receive a Budget boost.
Elite schools on Budget chopping block
TWO of Brisbane’s elite schools are set to lose more than $2.2 million under the Government’s education budget.
Foreigners get $15bn in welfare
ABOUT 870,000 non-citizens living in Australia are claiming $15 billion a year in welfare benefits, according to a new analysis.
Where did that spending crisis go?
OUR national debt is nearly half a trillion dollars. But that won’t stop our government from promising huge spending increases in the Budget tomorrow.
Budget 2017: What we know so far
THE countdown to tomorrow night’s Federal Budget has begun. Here’s the latest on what we can expect from Treasurer Scott Morrison who says he’s shooting from the hip for hard-working Aussie families.
Major sports up for grabs for all networks
MAJOR sporting events including soccer’s World Cup, the US Masters golf and Wimbledon tennis will be up for grabs for all television networks under big changes to the anti-siphoning list.
Time to focus on nation building
NOTABLE in the lead-up to this Budget is the shift from the bellicose rhetoric. Gone is the apocalyptic talk of debt and deficit disasters. Instead, an accounting treatment separating good debt from bad.
Ten-year ban to safeguard Future Fund
THE TREASURY wants to bring in a decade-long ban on raiding the $130 billion Future Fund to pay for spiralling superannuation costs.
Nasty Budget surprises are unlikely
THE first Budget after a government is re-elected is traditionally the time to do the unpopular stuff, but that is unlikely to happen this time, writes James Campbell.
ScoMo promises cost of living help
AUSTRALIANS will win a hip-pocket reprieve tomorrow to offset years of slow wage growth in a bid by the Turnbull government to ease cost-of-living pain. WHAT TO EXPECT
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