A decade of splurge: states in $171bn spree
State treasurers have gone on a decade-long spending spree, forcing government expenditure to dramatically outstrip inflation and racking up nearly $360bn in debt.
State treasurers have gone on a decade-long spending spree, forcing government expenditure to dramatically outstrip inflation and racking up nearly $360bn in debt.
Queensland remains the magnet for people moving within Australia, while Sydney continues to lose the most numbers to other parts of the country | See who went where.
The AEC is poised to abolish the North Sydney federal seat under its proposed redistribution as both Liberal and Labor attempt to chart their best path to victory.
Hey, Mr Howard, if you want to make a comeback, guess what? The AEC is putting your old seat back together.
Former PM John Howard calls for Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese to ‘adopt a common purpose’ and agree for their parties to preference the Greens last on voting cards.
Labor’s stage three tax revamp will fail to stop Australians in the highest income tax bracket rising to about one million people, with the share of workers in this bracket rising to 7.4 per cent
The benefits of stage three tax cuts will vanish for workers in four years, Treasury says, with the budget being widely panned by economists as adding to inflation pressures.
From changing tax to the spending splurge and our debt mountain, this is Labor’s federal budget in five must-see charts.
Sixteen years after Jim Chalmers helped Wayne Swan deliver the Rudd government’s first budget, the Treasurer of 2024 faces a completely different political map of blue-collar electorates.
Jim Chalmers is on track to pick up almost a quarter of a trillion dollars more in receipts over the next three years than was forecast just two years ago, amid an economist’s warning on spending.
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