Today
- Opinion
- Federal budget
There is method in the energy rebate economists will hate
This is a budget that acknowledges the government is facing a mountain of problems that cannot be solved any time soon.
- 24 mins ago
- Laura Tingle
The budget in five key charts
The five key graphs to understand the government’s latest federal budget.
- 47 mins ago
- Edmund Tadros
- Opinion
- Federal budget
The costs of the future still start adding up today
Jim Chalmers is betting he can get the balance right between curbing inflation in the short term while promoting growth in the longer term.
- 1 hr ago
- Jennifer Hewett
Spending addiction fuels a new decade of deficits
This pre-election budget includes $300 in power bill discounts for every household, $1.9 billion in rent assistance and $14 billion in tax credits for critical mineral miners and green hydrogen producers.
- 1 hr ago
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Federal budget
There’s an $80b spending bomb buried in the budget
The people who should be most worried about this profligate pre-election budget are Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock and home borrowers.
- 1 hr ago
- John Kehoe
From babies to Boomers: what’s in the budget for you
The 2024 federal budget includes power bill relief, more training places and additional rent assistance.
- 1 hr ago
- Joanna Mather and Lucy Dean
$24b in front-loaded spending risks fuelling inflation
Spending and taxing decisions in this budget will tip an extra $24 billion into the economy, jarring with the government’s claims that it is putting downward pressure on inflation.
- 1 hr ago
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Federal budget
The most irresponsible budget in recent memory
The government set itself a simple standard: not to make the Reserve Bank’s job harder. Michele Bullock may just choke on her cornflakes.
- 1 hr ago
- Steven Hamilton
Backpackers from China, India, Vietnam caught in migration crackdown
The government expects to halve migration levels by next year, with international students bearing the brunt of measures.
- 1 hr ago
- Julie Hare, Michael Read and Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Chalmers crumbles and gives up spending restraint
Jim Chalmers is like a bloke who successfully dieted for two years but crumbled after someone shoved a bucket of KFC under his nose.
- 1 hr ago
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Gender and family advocates will have to wait a bit longer
The issue with announcing a rise in wages for childcare workers is that there is a multi-enterprise bargaining process underway.
- 1 hr ago
- Sally Patten
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Double Aussie uni student numbers? The question is still how
A flurry of higher education announcements ahead of the budget didn’t get to the crux of Jason Clare’s big ambition. Neither did the budget.
- 1 hr ago
- Julie Hare
Defence tries its hand at consulting as Labor keeps heat on big firms
The government will also conduct a second audit of public sector employment to track the progress on reducing its reliance on external advice.
- 1 hr ago
- Maxim Shanahan
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Forget policy, Albonomics is all politics
The budget is just more hard proof that Australia has not elected a government driven by policy since Kevin Rudd’s Labor in 2007.
- 1 hr ago
- Richard Holden
Deeming rate freeze extension keeps pensioners $3300 in the green
The figure used to estimate how much retirees’ investments are earning will remain well below where it would otherwise be, easing fears of an “income cliff”.
- 1 hr ago
- Lucy Dean
BHP’s $64b game; Chalmers slams ‘trick’ claim; Meme stock stupidity
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How the $3m super tax whack might hit property investors
Plans to tax unrealised gains on super balances have investors considering options. Here’s what calculations show about the potential impact of the tax.
- Duncan Hughes
Rio investors’ fear; Tesla slashes Oz jobs; Perpetual’s bigger story
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