Small business owners in Western Australia have not had their low expectations surpassed in Thursday’s State Budget, with one saying there was little to write home about.
Oliver Lane
Ben Harvey reveals the truth behind the words of a Budget speech that could send you to sleep.
Ben Harvey
WA will see its GST share lift above the legislated 75 cent floor for the first time in more than a decade the Budget has predicted, as Labor prepares to argue for the deal which has proven an economic boon.
Dylan Caporn
The cost-of-living crisis is over for some, if not all. But record population growth means the hospital and housing crisis is not yet abating.
Jessica Page
Millions of extra funds will be put into a range of regional infrastructure projects to see them completed, the State Budget has revealed.
Labor will unlock 33,000 residential lots across WA in a $101 million investment in water and power infrastructure in Thursday’s State Budget.
Dylan Caporn and Oliver Lane
WA families appear likely to miss out on power bill credits for the first time in five years as Rita Saffioti prepares to hand down her second Budget.
Jessica Page and Dylan Caporn
Public schools and the way kids get there will both receive major funding boosts when the NSW government unveils its budget next week.
Tom Wark
Pacific workers are being hindered in accessing their Australian superannuation by tricky rules, access to technology and language barriers.
Ben McKay
What is the superannuation tax fight all about and will you have to pay it?
Katina Curtis
Taxpayers are set to foot the bill as interest on debt eats a $29-million-a-day hole in a state budget, despite public service job cuts and higher tax revenue.
Callum Godde
There will be nowhere for the Victorian government to hide when the state budget lifts the lid on updated net debt, spending and taxation revenue projections.
One state's taxpayers could soon be forking out $25 million a day in interest with credit rating agencies looking for fiscal discipline in the upcoming budget.
The ongoing mass incarceration of youth offenders in a crime-ridden territory will only fuel repeat offending, the opposition says.
Lloyd Jones
Protesters have heaped fresh pressure on a state premier and treasurer to dump an expanded emergency services levy ahead of it being put to a final vote.
Measures announced in the Northern Territory budget include a record $1.5 billion spend on law and order.
While those families on the wrong end of the widening gap between rich and poor are forced to tighten their belts, politicians seem able to rustle up billions in an instant, when votes are on the line.
Anthony Albanese has jetted into Perth ahead of his first campaign appearance in WA on the back of a wave of improved polls, showing Labor improving its chances of a second term.
Nicola Smith and Dylan Caporn
The newly elected Cook Government will hand down its first post-election Budget in June, as welfare agencies plead for more cost-of-living relief for struggling West Australians.
Joe Spagnolo
With Prime Minister Anthony Albanese poised to call an election as soon as Friday, Mr Dutton said repeatedly the choice ahead of Australians could not be clearer.
The Coalition has pledged it will repeal Labor’s $5-a-week tax cuts, saying it needs the money to fund its alternative offering of halving the fuel excise for a year.
The Federal Budget missed an opportunity to help mental health issues for a very stressed-out nation.
Kim Macdonald
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will halve the petrol excise for a year in his answer to Labor’s $5 a week tax cuts that the Coalition has voted against in the wake of the Budget.
The two major parties will go to the election divided over 70c a day, as income tax cuts emerge as a significant policy battleground in the upcoming Federal election.
Ellen Ransley
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