2024 Federal Budget

The Australian Medical Association said that the government should have prioritised improved funding arrangements for general practice.

Border hawks have upped the rhetoric to spur the president and Senate to action, hinting that domestic funding and Ukraine aid depend on closing the border.

But the CR opens an opportunity. ‘Whatever it takes. For as long as it takes.’

State budgets are near-uniformly in the black following a 2020-22 Congressional spending spree that added trillions to the nation’s debt and fostered sharp discord between the House and Senate that, ironically, will likely delay adoption of the federal budget, raising the specter of a government shutdown.