Threat to migrants’ study and work
The Coalition says it would examine the removal of work and study entitlements for nearly 80,000 unsuccessful asylum-seekers awaiting deportation from Australia.
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One million workers now in top tax bracket
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
‘River to the sea’ vote sparks legal warning
A Muslim group awarded charity status in this week’s budget has sent senators a legal letter and claims Labor has abandoned Fatima Payman over her allegations of genocide in Gaza.
Labor lashed for caving in to Greens on gas fast-track
Labor has been accused of trading away reforms that would have fixed the ‘broken’ offshore gas approvals system to secure a mega legislative deal with the Greens.
$300 rebate meant to influence RBA on rates: Bowen
The Energy Minister has admitted the $300 in power bill relief for every household was a deliberate attempt to buy a lower inflation outcome and put pressure on the RBA to cut rates.
Rate hopes rise as jobless jump
The chance of a rate cut by the end of this year has jumped to 50 per cent, according to financial markets, after jobs figures showed a surprise jump in the unemployment rate to 4.1 per cent in April.
Labor ‘fails own test’ on national interest funding
Industry leaders and economists say a new ‘national interest’ test must be applied retrospectively to contentious $1bn investments in Australian-made solar panels and a world first quantum computer
Labor’s flagship policy thrown into doubt
The centrepiece of Labor’s Future Made in Australia agenda – $13.7bn in tax credits for green hydrogen and critical minerals – faces a parliamentary impasse.
Cost-of-living handouts that bust inflation a ‘trick’
A former RBA board member says claiming taxpayer-funded subsidies are an antidote to high inflation is a ‘political trick’ that will not address underlying price pressures.
‘Anti-Semitism worst it’s been in my lifetime’
Anthony Albanese says that anti-Semitism is being expressed more openly now than at any other point in his life, just days after Australia voted to upgrade Palestine’s UN status.
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