From tax breaks for alcohol to panda visits, Jim Chalmers’ spending is spread wide.
Aaron Patrick
There could be a new rush on WA’s $10,000 cash offer for tradies to head west, with the Federal Budget slashing red tape so electricians can move interstate.
Jessica Page
A Perth small business owner says the lack of Federal Budget measures to support firms like hers came as no surprise because it was ‘never likely’ going to be the priority in a cost-of-living crunch.
Cheyanne Enciso
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ ‘unexpected Budget’ could be a chance for Labor to resell its health pitch to voters after Coalition sought to mute the previous announcement.
CAITLYN RINTOUL
Jim Chalmers transformed what was widely expected to be a boring set of documents into a classic election Budget with the wave of his $17 billion tax cut wand.
Katina Curtis
What does this year’s Federal Budget playlist sound like? Kate Emery breaks down the mix-tape of old classics, new hits and the earworms you’ll be subjected to from now until the election.
Kate Emery
Australians struggling with the cost of medicines and seeing a doctor are among the big winners of Labor’s fourth Budget as it further pushed its health credentials on Tuesday.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Calls from the Trump Administration and defence experts alike and a concession the world is a ‘more dangerous place’ have not been heeded in the defence budget.
Ellen Ransley
Every Australian worker will get two ‘top-up’ tax cuts in a Budget that Jim Chalmers wants to rebuild people’s living standards — and the Government’s prospects of re-election.
Australia will spend an extra $135.87m on foreign assistance in the next year, as part of an attempt to cushion the blow of the United States withdrawing billions of dollars’ worth of aid from the Indo-Pacific.
What he said – and what he actually meant. Ben Harvey unjumbles Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Budget jargon.
Ben Harvey
The Albanese Government will put millions into managing the impacts of overseas conflicts at home and abroad.
Oliver Lane
Here’s your five-minute guide to Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ ‘cost of living’ Budget that we were never meant to have.
Danielle Le Messurier
First home buyers will have an easier path to home ownership after the Albanese Government pumped millions into its housing plan.
Oliver Lane & Kim Macdonald
A grim Federal Budget included repeated warnings about ‘storm clouds’ on the economic horizon, with Jim Chalmers conceding ‘the whole world has changed’.
Non-compete clauses will be a thing of the past for many Australians as the Federal Government announced it would ban them for workers earning less than $175,000 in Tuesday’s Budget.
Jim Chalmers has rebadged previously announced education investments as cost-of-living relief in a Budget with few surprises.
Bethany Hiatt
NICK BRUINING: Families were hoping for cost-of-living relief. Instead they got hit by a piece of lettuce.
Nick Bruining
WA’s money-spinning iron ore miners will have to contend with South Australia’s ailing steel industry for the lion’s share of a new $1 billion Federal Government green iron fund.
Adrian Rauso
From giant pandas to yellow crazy ants, here are five random snippets you may have missed in the Albanese Government’s latest Budget.
David Johns
Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers want to use the Budget to polish their economic credentials ahead of the election and showcase the progress Labor has made throughout its whole term in power.
The exact timing of the Federal election may hang on one specific aspect of the Albanese Government’s last-minute Budget on Tuesday.
Nicola Smith
Australians will get more help with the cost of living in next week’s Budget but the Government is looking for when it can ‘lean out’ and leave the task of driving economic growth to the private sector.
Treasurer Rita Saffioti says WA wants its fair share of road funding from the Federal Budget, but admits she’s ‘not hopeful’ the State will see all its wishes fulfilled.
Dylan Caporn
