Global tensions, China slowdown casts budget shadow
The threat of escalating conflict in the Middle East has cast further uncertainty over Australia's pre-budget economic outlook, the treasurer has warned.
federal budget
The fallout from severe storms in Queensland could lead to consequences for the economy and budget bottom line, the treasurer has warned.
The federal government's mid-year review will show it has found budget savings to pay for new spending, such as the response to the robodebt royal commission.
The federal government has smashed its earlier forecasts for a budget surplus, coming in at $22.1 billion, but spending pressures loom large.
Opinion
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN asks the obvious question: if everyone's broke, who's got all the money?
News
New Barton precinct a Budget boon, says Barr
The most significant new commitment for Canberra in last night's (October 25) federal Budget announcement was the investment in a major National Security Office Precinct in Barton, said Chief Minister Andrew Barr.
Politics
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN is starting to get twitchy about the forthcoming federal government Budget.
The ACT will receive $51 million for three major infrastructure projects in this week’s federal budget.
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN sees the Budget problem ahead for the federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg.
SHADOW treasurer Chris Bowen on Wednesday will promise a Labor government would deliver bigger cumulative…
TREASURER Scott Morrison has unveiled an income tax plan that will cost $140 billion over…
IT’s an indication of how politically difficult the terrain is for the Coalition that Scott…
Federal Parliament
Grattan / Catholic backlash over schools policy lights another Abbott-Turnbull spark
WHEN the public are deeply cynical and distrustful, and have turned their back on a…
THERE has been no talk from the government around Budget time of ensuring the very…
There is no reason for the leaders of major parties to care what happens to…
It is a "cruel irony" that Newstart allowance has not increased, while better-off Australians have…
CANBERRA will bear the brunt of an "overwhelmingly negative" federal budget, according to the Canberra…
