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Families earning under $120,000 a year are the real winners in the budget but there’s one big ticket surprise that will help all Aussies regardless of income - and that’s free GP visits for kids.The largest investment in bulk billing in the…

High income workers earning $200,000 a year are set to score a $9,000 tax cut next year, but you wouldn’t know it if you read the budget papers.The giant secret in the budget was the $69 billion that Treasurer Jim Chalmers is set to shovel…

It’s the dirty little secret buried in the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s media blitz over cost of living relief in the budget.While the budget plans to dish out $14 billion in cost of living relief for families, the rich will still…

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is set to deliver the first surplus in over a decade in a stunning budget turnaround that even he admits won’t last.The Queenslander is set to pull off an astonishing fiscal turnaround that will deliver a modest $4…

Single parents who rely on welfare will not be forced back to work until their youngest child is 14 in a move that will deliver a $4,576 a year windfall to eligible families. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who has long maintained the…

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has refused to confirm changes to welfare for single parents but says the payments saved her life when she was a young mother.Single parents with older children hoping to receive more generous government…

Single parents with older children hoping to receive more generous financial assistance are on tenterhooks waiting to find out whether the measure will feature in next month’s federal budget.Finance Minister Katy Gallagher said on Sunday…