election promises

A deal to save one of Anthony Albanese’s key election promises has been struck, paving the way for the government’s signature climate policy to become law. After threatening for weeks to vote against plans to beef-up the safeguard mechanism…

A seven-year-old clip of shadow treasurer Angus Taylor backing the idea of increasing super tax concessions for wealthy Australians has threatened to undermine his critique of a change to the tax rate. Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers on…

The first Labor budget in about 10 years has been slammed by the opposition as a “budget of disappointment”.Shadow assistant treasurer Stuart Robert savaged the budget on Wednesday morning, accusing the government of going back on its…

Sunrise co-host David Koch has grilled Treasurer Jim Chalmers on the new budget and accused the government of not delivering on two of its election promises. Mr Chalmers warned there would be “hard days to come” as he handed down his first…

The federal government’s mini budget, to be announced on Tuesday, will be very different to the cash splash Australians enjoyed in March. International and domestic pressures mean that the next budget slated for October 25 will be a sombre…

Labor’s federal budget will save up t0 $21bn after an audit revealed ways to claw back savings by cutting costs in many government departments.Among the cuts to be made are $2bn worth of grants and $3.6bn that would have been spent on…