Sandbags of cash to save rocky states
Anthony Albanese will sandbag seats in WA and Queensland and shield struggling miners in the budget, with Treasury close to finalising targeted production tax credits.
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‘Goat rodeo’ claim over frigate tender
Richard Marles’ green light for a potential South Korean takeover of the monopoly shipbuilder in WA has sparked conflict of interest claims ahead of an $8bn navy frigate tender.
Get budget right or we go: business
Business leaders are warning the Victorian government ahead of its budget on Tuesday that if they do not get the balance right, companies will leave the state, taking jobs with them.
$1000 energy rebates ‘short-term Band-Aid’
Every Queensland household will be handed an unprecedented $1000 energy rebate ahead of the October state election as Premier Steven Miles ramps up spending to try and claw back electoral support.
Violent porn is normalised on an ‘industrial scale’
Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame says Australia ‘cannot hope to prevent child sex abuse and family violence’ with the unfettered proliferation of pornography and inappropriate material online.
Coalition threat to stop $1bn computer
PsiQuantum’s $1bn deal with the Albanese and Miles governments to build a quantum computer in Brisbane could be torn up if the Coalition wins federal and Queensland elections within 12 months.
‘Substantial’ $18bn hospital cash splash
Anthony Albanese will be on the hook for an extra $18bn if the states sign off on a new deal to increase commonwealth spending by 13.5pc under new hospital funding agreement.
Beware sticky inflation, stickier deficits: OECD
The OECD has warned that persistent price pressures in Australia’s services sector may mean interest rates may have to stay higher than hoped, days out from the Reserve Bank’s next board meeting.
PM injects billions for health cure
Anthony Albanese has offered to increase commonwealth hospital spending by 13.5pc in the first year of a new hospital funding agreement with the states.
Treasurer’s blithe call a political misdeal
Jim Chalmers’ suggestion of a ‘big over-reaction’ to inflation data ignores the point that households are seeing more and more of their hard-earned cash eroded.
Chalmers’ advice for the inflation experts
Jim Chalmers says investors and economists have ‘overreacted’ to last week’s hot inflation figures, putting Labor further out of step with expert economic consensus on spending cuts.
Two-year charm offensive before $1bn quantum deal
A US-based tech company that won almost $1bn in taxpayer funds wooed Queensland and federal ministers over two years and hosted Ed Husic and Cameron Dick at their California HQ.
Rock, hard place and what to do with those in between
How the detention system for asylum-seekers was instituted.
Pressure on Bowen to boost gas supply
Gas producers say eighteen months of government interventions have dampened investor confidence, after Chris Bowen acknowledged more supply is necessary.
BHP class action lawyers to target other firms
An international law firm says it will target Australian companies including BHP, escalating the political row over the regulation of class action litigation funders.
Business backs Labor’s FIRB hard line
Businesses have backed the government’s decision to take a tougher stance on investments by foreign state owned enterprises while speeding up the process for known foreign investors.
ALP dreaming of green growth before reality bites
Jim Chalmers declares he’s creating a new growth model amid a world of churn and change. He’s dreaming.
‘Korea bid for shipbuilder is OK’
Richard Marles has endorsed a potential South Korean takeover of Australia’s biggest home-grown defence company, Austal.
Call for delay of sheep export halt
WA’s Agriculture Minister has wants a delay in the summer moratorium on live sheep exports to help farmers battling record drought. The Albanese government is yet to respond.
Emergency cash for DV victims
Anthony Albanese has spelled out his plan to tackle the ‘crisis’ of gendered violence that has left 29 Australian women dead so far this year.
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