Budget

Labor’s Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek and Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce in fiery debate on morning TV ahead of budget
Labor’s Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek and Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce have debated financial policy ahead of Tuesday night’s federal budget. ...

Federal budget 2025: Australia to hit record $940 billion debt as budget returns to deficit
Australia will hit a record level of debt when the government unveils a federal budget that shows a structural worsening ...

Federal budget 2025: Jim Chalmers reveals Australia’s ‘defence’ against Trump’s tariffs
Australia is shoring up its economic defences against Donald Trump by baking a US tariff response into the federal budget. ...

Women’s health a focus of Labor’s budget alongside bulk-billing, cheaper medicine and health workforce
Strengthening Australia’s health system has been positioned as the centrepiece of this year’s federal budget, with women’s health a focus ...

Tax cuts, energy rebates, cash incentives, slashed HECS debts: How the 2025 federal budget will fill Aussie wallets
Modest tax cuts have been announced in the 2025 federal budget which claims to keep the cost of living as ...

‘An election bribe by a weak Prime Minister’: Coalition’s shadow treasurer Angus Taylor slams Labor’s 2025 budget
The Liberal-National coalition has slammed Labor’s 2025 budget as a “budget for the next five weeks, not the next five ...

Peter Dutton’s big gas plan slammed as distraction: ‘Fart in an elevator’
Australians won’t be offered any more tax relief under a coalition government, with opposition leader Peter Dutton instead pitching cheaper ...

Peter Dutton hits back at Labor’s tax cuts with cheaper fuel offer as election nears
Australians struggling with rising bills call for more help than a meagre tax cut as the opposition leader prepares to ...

Federal budget 2025: Australia to hit record $940 billion debt as budget returns to deficit
Australia will hit a record level of debt when the government unveils a federal budget that shows a structural worsening ...

Budget opportunity to boost domestic demand as external environment cloudy: Tata Motors Group CFO
At a time when the external environment is extremely cloudy, the Union Budget can look at consumption-boosting measures to push ...