Chalmers warned on state-style handouts
Economists are warning Jim Chalmers could wreck the government’s chances of a pre-election interest rate cut if he replicates Queensland Labor’s populist cost-of-living spending promises.
Economists are warning Jim Chalmers could wreck the government’s chances of a pre-election interest rate cut if he replicates Queensland Labor’s populist cost-of-living spending promises.
Australia has hit its lowest fertility rate on record, with cost-of-living pressures and house prices being blamed.
Since 2001, when Newspoll began calculating two-party-preferred results for all polls, every government has fallen behind the opposition on that measure at some point during the parliamentary term.
Two of the nation’s leading Jewish groups have sought public commitments from Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton for the major parties to preference each other over the Greens at the next election.
A bushfire on Sydney’s northern beaches has been downgraded as firefighters gained control of the large blaze with no property losses reported. But residents are on alert for possible flare-ups.
Almost two million international migrants have arrived in Australia since the end of Covid restrictions in late 2021.
With the AEC’s announcement on Thursday that the NSW electorate of North Sydney will be abolished, as proposed, the geographic starting grid is set for the next election.
Arisa Trew has completed the trifecta: go to the Olympics at age 14, win a gold medal, get a duck.
There are far more marginal electorates with voters who have both parents born in Australia compared to those with above average Muslim populations.
The Aussie women finished third on a medal tally for all female competitors and, on a per-capita basis, Australia also came in top three.
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