Shorten’s $71bn Budget boost
UPDATES: Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has used his Budget reply speech to declare his government would deliver $71 billion worth of improvements.
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‘Outrageous delay’ on disaster funds
NATURAL disaster funding totalling $1 billion has been withheld by two years in a Budget decision the State Government says leaves an unexpected hole in its coffers.
Koch: ‘Don’t get spooked by this’
DAVID Koch and a panel of experts have explained how the Federal Budget will affect you — with many questions on changes to super and tax cuts.
Schools funding in budget gets fail mark
AEU NT branch president Jarvis Ryan says the Budget, which includes $17.6 billion for schools, is disappointing
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ASIC’s funding to ‘combat mischief’
AUSTRALIA’S corporate cops will receive more than $127 million to help their efforts in policing financial service providers. But advocates warn it only partially restores cuts.
Funding ripped from MH370 search
THE FEDERAL Treasurer has erased any hope of continuing the search for MH370, cutting off $80 million in funding and axing staff at the lead agency.
Budget win for disability scheme
THE National Disability Insurance Scheme is on track to be fully operational by July with a special savings fund established to pay half of its $22 billion cost.
What’s in the Budget for Western Sydney
THE biggest spend in Sydney’s west is on an infrastructure boost – with the centrepiece guaranteed cash to start planning a rail link to the second Sydney airport.
Budget boost for anti-terror programs
EXTRA money will be spent building Australia’s ‘digital resilience’ against terrorism and turning young people away from extreme and radical influences.
‘This is a plan, not just another Budget’
TREASURER Scott Morrison’s Budget is pre-election proof that the Government wants to quietly delay some of the Abbott government’s most unpopular plans.
Morrison delivers election Budget
THE waiting and speculation is over. Treasurer Scott Morrison has handed down his first Federal Budget. So what’s in it for you?
What the Budget means for you
THE hardest hit in the Federal Budget are lower-income parents with teen children. But childless people on above-average incomes will come out on top.
Weird stuff we learnt from the Budget
FROM the death of the duty free carton of cigarettes to the high cost of trees and the wild plan to go postal on carp, here are nine weird things we picked up from the Budget.
Treasurer to lure women back to work
SCOTT Morrison will today unleash a charm offensive on Australian women in a Federal Budget aimed at wooing mums back to work and winning their vote in 60 days’ time.
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