Massive Medicare overhaul: Higher rebates coming
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Federal Budget
6yo steals spotlight at budget reveal
Moments after Jim Chalmers delivered his second budget, he was snapped with his daughter.
How to cash in on budget promises
Many Australians will be able to gain cheaper access to medical care, rent and welfare payments in this year’s federal budget.
One group to miss out in budget
One group of Australians will be scratching their heads looking for any sweeteners in this budget.
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Where did that spending crisis go?
OUR national debt is nearly half a trillion dollars. But that won’t stop our government from promising huge spending increases in the Budget tomorrow.
Budget 2017: What we know so far
THE countdown to tomorrow night’s Federal Budget has begun. Here’s the latest on what we can expect from Treasurer Scott Morrison who says he’s shooting from the hip for hard-working Aussie families.
Major sports up for grabs for all networks
MAJOR sporting events including soccer’s World Cup, the US Masters golf and Wimbledon tennis will be up for grabs for all television networks under big changes to the anti-siphoning list.
Time to focus on nation building
NOTABLE in the lead-up to this Budget is the shift from the bellicose rhetoric. Gone is the apocalyptic talk of debt and deficit disasters. Instead, an accounting treatment separating good debt from bad.
Ten-year ban to safeguard Future Fund
THE TREASURY wants to bring in a decade-long ban on raiding the $130 billion Future Fund to pay for spiralling superannuation costs.
Nasty Budget surprises are unlikely
THE first Budget after a government is re-elected is traditionally the time to do the unpopular stuff, but that is unlikely to happen this time, writes James Campbell.
ScoMo promises cost of living help
AUSTRALIANS will win a hip-pocket reprieve tomorrow to offset years of slow wage growth in a bid by the Turnbull government to ease cost-of-living pain. WHAT TO EXPECT
Crims targeted in Budget crackdown
GANGS and local terrorists will be the target of a beefed-up Australian Federal Police force in a $321 million Turnbull government plan to tackle violent crime.
War brews over schools funding
THE Turnbull government has doubled down on its education funding plan, pitting itself against the Andrews government, which claims Victorian schools could each lose millions.
Drug drivers, mobiles targets of crackdown
HOW much are mobile phones and drug use contributing to increasing road fatalities? The government is determined to find out.
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