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No-one expected it to rain bitcoin, but budget week was a tech drought
No-one in the tech sector was expecting it to rain Bitcoin during budget week. In the weeks leading up to…
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Welcome to the menagerie, with dead salmon, pandas and MPs fighting extinction
Campaign tactics are some of the closest held political secrets. But you need only look to question time to see…
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Live: Angus Taylor says fuel excise ‘absolutely not’ Coalition’s own election bribe
15m agoWed 26 Mar 2025 at 8:51pm Why the controversy around salmon farming? Salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour has become…
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What are non-compete clauses and why are economists so keen to abolish them?
A proposed ban on non-compete clauses for most workers was one of the budget’s rare surprises, which wasn’t flagged until…
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Budget forecasts may be blown away by Trump tariff war
Former Reserve Bank deputy governor Guy Debelle once quoted Door’s frontman Jim Morrison in a speech when the fallout from…
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Is Australia’s economy on track for a ‘soft landing’? The budget papers say it is
The forecasts in last night’s budget paint a rosy picture of the future. “A soft landing in our economy is…
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Booming trade in illegal tobacco costing the budget billions
The federal budget bottom line has been dealt an almost $7 billion blow in tobacco tax revenue, as black market…
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Government reveals federal budget crackdown on non-compete clauses
The Albanese government will ban non-compete clauses for nearly 3 million workers and crack down on anti-competitive labour practices as…
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Staring down years of deficits, Chalmers spruiks budget as a ‘platform for prosperity’
With an expected decade of deficits on the horizon, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will try to convince voters that Tuesday’s federal…
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A federal budget that’s tiptoeing around the edge of reality
There’s a Clayton’s budget, the one you’re having when you’re not really having a budget. And then there’s this, the…
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