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20/12/2018 Queensland businesswoman and likely incoming Nationals senator Susan McDonald in Southport, Gold Coast. Julian Tomlinson/The Australian

Parliament-lite call as second MP falls

Federal parliament is set to return next week with as few MPs and staff as possible.

Simon Benson and Richard Ferguson

COMMENTARYMedia

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (right) and Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg speak to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 12, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Brace for the financial contagion

The ABC champions more government spending but seldom surpluses. Yet without budget repair, we wouldn’t have been as well placed for COVID-19.

Chris Mitchell

CommentaryEconomics

Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg listens to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison as he speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 12, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Enough to get recession’s measure?

The way we measure our economy set the direction for the deluge of stimulus designed to cushion the coronavirus blow.

Adam Creighton

EconomyEconomics

Former Treasurer and Chairman of the Future Fund, Peter Costello during the Australian Financial Review (AFR) summit, Investing for Growth, at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Stimulus could need budget boost: Costello

Former treasurer and Future Fund chair Peter Costello says the Coalition’s stimulus package may need an encore.

Michael Roddan

BIG BUSINESS ‘PATRIOTISM’Politics

Prime Minister Scott Morrison gives an update on the coronavirus at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Froday, March 6, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

PM’s fast-track cash to beat coronavirus

Cash payments will be used to help funnel money back into the economy under a multi-billion-dollar coronavirus response.

Simon Benson and Patrick Commins

CoronavirusNation

28/05/2018: Carey Baptist Grammar School, Kew, VIC . Stuart McEvoy for The Australian.

First Victorian school shuts its doors

A Melbourne private school has suspended classes for 24 hours amid a feared virus outbreak as more cases are confirmed across Australia.

Elias Visontay and ADESHOLA ORE

COMMENTARYCommentary

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (right) and Australian Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg speak during House of Representatives Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 5, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Time to eat some surplus humble pie

The Morrison government will be forgiven its failure to return the budget to surplus … but should it?

Peter Van Onselen

COVID responsePolitics

Surplus lost in $10bn virus rescue operation

PM jettisons budget surplus to fund a coronavirus stimulus package in a bid to stave off a recession.

Simon Benson and Patrick Commins

COMMENTARYEconomics

Shutters are placed on the windows of the Cafe Florian in Saint Mark Square just before at 18 o'clock in Venice on March 8, 2020, after millions of people were placed under forced quarantine in northern Italy as the government approved drastic measures in an attempt to halt the spread of the deadly coronavirus that is sweeping the globe. - On top of the forced quarantine of 15 million people in vast areas of northern Italy until April 3, the government has also closed schools, nightclubs and casinos throughout the country, according to the text of the decree published on the government website. With more than 230 fatalities, Italy has recorded the most deaths from the COVID-19 disease of any country outside China, where the outbreak began in December. (Photo by ANDREA PATTARO / AFP)

Small business SOS

The Coalition has tied itself in knots over economic stimulus, but this time it does need to be different.

Alan Kohler

Commentary

Cool heads will prevail in crisis

Australians can be confident their government is ready for the pandemic.

JOSH FRYDENBERG

CommentaryMedia

Why budget forecasting is fraught

Trying to compare Josh Frydenberg to Wayne Swan is a false equivalence.

Chris Kenny

CommentaryPolitics

Prime Minister Scott Morrison with Health Minister Greg Hunt, Josh Frydenberg and Professor Brendan Murphy Ð Australian Chief Medical Officer on an Update on novel coronavirus, at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Gary Ramage

The defence of the budget retreat begins

Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg are prepared like never before to accept a May budget surplus may not be possible.

Dennis Shanahan

ECONOMIC RETHINKPolitics

Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers speaks to the media during a press conference at the Commonwealth Parliament Offices in Sydney, Wednesday, November 20, 2019. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Labor looks to Ardern for budget shake-up

Jim Chalmers has declared Australia should consider adopting a version of Jacinda Ardern’s ‘wellbeing budget’.

Geoff Chambers

LettersLetters

Family home should be tested

It’s not fair to those who don’t have a home and are paying their own way

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