Nearly two-thirds of the jobs created under the Albanese government are being funded by the taxpayer, with Jim Chalmers paving the way for more money for aged care, childcare, higher education and health ahead of the election.
Questions on sexual orientation and gender identity will be included in Australia’s next census, with Anthony Albanese doing an about-face on the issue.
The decision follows backlash from the LGBTIQ+ advocates, Labor MPs and the unions after the government initially rejected having new questions in the survey.
Protestors are in custody after a brawl broke out in the Melbourne CBD, as activists descended on an arms manufacturer expo.
RBA governor Michele Bullock has kept rate hikes on the agenda, despite Jim Chalmers’ claim that they were ’smashing the economy’, saying a failure to get on top of inflation would plunge the nation into recession.
Jim Chalmers has credited government spending for keeping Australia out of recession amid the weakest economic growth since 1991, which he says undermines RBA forecasts and calls for further rate hikes.
The nation’s per-capita recession deepened in the June quarter, as tepid growth failed to keep pace with a migration-fuelled jump in the population.
John Howard has accused the federal Treasurer of panicking at the first whiff of economic grapeshot and desperately and disloyally seeking to shift the blame for high interest rates on to RBA governor Michele Bullock.
A government minister has warned the RBA against going ‘too far’ in its fight against inflation, despite Jim Chalmers denying he was attempting to influence the decisions of the independent central bank.
Anthony Albanese has continued to bat away suggestions that Labor is attempting to shift blame for sluggish economic growth onto the Reserve Bank after Jim Chalmers’ said its rate hikes were ‘smashing the economy’.
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