The big Queensland projects that are safe – and at risk
Two major Queensland rail projects remain funded in the federal budget, but an axe hovers over other state mega projects.
Federal Budget
First look at how much Voice will cost
With just months to go until the Voice to Parliament referendum, the budget has revealed how much putting it on will cost.
$129m to investigate Aussie war crimes
The Office of Special Investigator received a major boost to probe alleged war crimes by Australia’s Special Forces in Afghanistan.
Massive surge in people coming to Australia
A big change is looming for Australians, with already frustrated renters expected to be hit the hardest.
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Malcolm has killed the zombies
THE 2014 budget was the rampaging Frankenstein’s monster which wrecked the Abbott leadership, and came close to killing off the Turnbull government at the last election, writes Miranda Devine.
Random drug tests if you’re on the dole
DRUGGIES and drunks will be booted off the dole or forced into rehab as the Turnbull government forces random drug tests on the jobless.
Finally, Turnbull casts Abbott’s ghost aside
IT’S taken nearly two years but Turnbull has finally broken free from the Abbott era, writes James Campbell.
Here’s to better days, says ScoMo
COMMENT: In a bid to restore faith with voters, the Treasurer has lifted the lid on a Budget centred on a fair go for battlers.
11 things you should know about the Budget
IT WAS worlds away from the horror Abbott-Hockey effort of three years ago, but the devil will always be in the detail in a federal Budget. What did you miss?
Calculated to blunt Labor’s attack
EDITORIAL: The Federal Budget is politically astute, and can almost be viewed as a document that was prepared by drawing up a list of every line of Opposition attack.
Play-it-safe Budget reveals real Malcolm
THE government was too timid to cut expenditure in this Budget, a lost opportunity that makes them look like Paul Keating Mark II, writes Catherine McGregor.
Games’ security will cost $34 million
THE military will be deployed to the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games to provide millions of dollars worth of ‘niche capability’.
Arrium poised for big win from rail project
WHYALLA steelmaker Arrium is poised to win big from the construction of a $8.4 billion inland railway line as part of an ambitious increase in federal infrastructure spending.
Kochie’s verdict on the Budget
THE average Aussie is asset-rich, cash-poor, frustrated and disenchanted … so is this Budget the answer to all our financial woes?
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