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Labor commits to outlaw supermarket price gouging if re-elected
The government will commit to make it illegal for supermarkets to price-gouge customers if re-elected, several days after an inquiry…
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Dutton vows energy bills will come down, but won’t give dollar figure
Peter Dutton has declared there is “no doubt” that power bills will be cheaper under a Coalition government, but is…
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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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Compare the pair: Which major parties’ tax policy leaves you better off?
A new policy battle has erupted between the two major parties, as Australians prepare to go to the polls within…
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New salmon laws are about much more than Tasmania’s salmon industry
A dead fish held up in the Senate and a cameo from a Hollywood celebrity. Tasmania’s salmon industry well and…
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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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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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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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Here’s everything we know about what’s in today’s pre-election budget
It was the budget that almost didn’t happen, but the federal government will let us in on its spending priorities…
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Coalition loses some momentum as ‘thought bubbles’ float into the policy void
When Norman Mailer landed in Kinshasa to cover the Rumble in the Jungle half a century ago, the great American…
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