Cost-of-living increases, inflation, and energy prices affect everyone. And that matters even more when we’re amid a significant generational shift in voting patterns.
The budget’s back in surplus after 15 years, briefly, and there are measures to ease cost-of-living pressures, but can it tame inflation?
The October 2022 budget marks a departure from the “blokier” budgets of recent years, centring gender equality and the care economy rather than high-vis and hard hats.
The first Labor budget in nine years, delivered against a grim economic backdrop, contains few surprises as it charts Australia's way through uncertain times and high-cost hazards.
The Australian Greens, rather than the Labor Party, have emerged as the champions of the contemporary Australian welfare state.
With an election imminent, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has splashed out billions in his “cost of living” budget, but is it enough to buy your vote?
No new funding for family violence, not enough for meaningful workplace change. What was the government thinking?
The federal government has unveiled a budget filled with tax cuts and massive fiscal stimulus that will generate billions in deficits through to 2023.
COVID-19 killed off any prospect of a budget surplus in the foreseeable future, but good fiscal management should see us ride out its economic impacts.
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