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Chalmers wants you to immediately forget this budget update ever happened
This may well turn out to be Labor’s final budget update until it faces voters early next year. That’s one…
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Budget ‘sunshine’ turns cloudy as deficits return, mid-year update to show
Labor’s two years of “budgetary sunshine” will slide back into deficit days as Treasurer Jim Chalmers juggles falling commodity prices,…
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Economists warn RBA board changes risk delaying interest rate cut
The Reserve Bank is undergoing a once-in-a-generation overhaul, and some economists say the disruption could affect the timing of the…
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Treasurer blames $1.8bn budget ‘slippage’ on veteran payouts
A worsening budget position to be handed down on Wednesday is due in part to $1.8 billion in extra money…
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The productivity conundrum that will stop RBA from a festive rate cut
It’s a term that keeps popping up. The financial press and economists have become obsessed with it and every time…
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Australia’s Future Fund invests in the global arms industry. Are the returns worth it?
Are we comfortable with this arrangement? Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, was created in 2006. In its first…
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A government that doesn’t want to upset people finds itself outgunned by a man with simple, angry messages
Peter Dutton held a “doorstop interview” at Parliament House on Tuesday. That’s news in itself, at least for the media.…
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Richard Marles plays a dead bat on nuclear as the government rushes to get through late work
Richard Marles is an ambitious man who hasn’t given up the dream of one day reaching the top job. But,…
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The Australian voting groups less likely to fear a second Trump presidency
Millennials and Gen Xers, families with children, higher-income and culturally and linguistically diverse households are less inclined than most Australians…
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‘My son says Trump is a hero’: Senator warns Australian leaders of losing young, ‘disengaged’ men
Australia’s political leaders have been told to get “back to basics” in the wake of Donald Trump’s sweeping return to…
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