Treasurer Jim Chalmers warned of “hard days to come’’ as he unveiled a federal budget with no extra cost-of-living sweeteners that also officially axed the $1500 tax cut for low- and middle-­income earners.

Victorian high school students have become a lost generation, missing more than seven million days of school – six weeks for each child – in the past year.

Australians are having more babies later in life following a record low dip in fertility rates during the pandemic.

Flood victims in desperate need of a roof over their head are relying on the generosity of big hearted Victorians to loan them their caravans.