Jim Chalmers

Sydney Councillor Steve Christou has said Peter Dutton’s plan to go lower than Labor on migration isn’t enough.

A range of green energy initiatives will be funded followed the release of the official budget by Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

The process to map the entire continent will take 35 years.

A boost to aged care workers’ salaries is among the $2.2 billion in announcements made for the sector in the 2024 federal budget.

The opposition, however, argues the budget ‘does nothing to help Australians get ahead and to restore their standard of living.’

The Labor government is set to spend $215 billion more than it earns over the next five years.

About $6.2 billion will go into the initiative.

The government also wants to pay superannuation guarantee on paid parental leave to help parents who choose to have more children.

The Commonwealth and Queensland governments have commited almost a billion dollars to quantum computing start-up PsiQuantum.

Net zero remains a key focus of the federal Labor government.

Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is calling for pay rise based on gender for women in ‘key feminised industries.’

Students studying nursing and teaching are among those required to complete unpaid placements to finish their degrees.

Jim Chalmers says the May 14 budget will place a ’real emphasis on economic security' amidst multiple concerns about the global economy.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the current voluntary regime is ’too hit and miss’ and there’s no way of knowing if the right mergers are being scrutinised.

Tariffs on goods like toothbrushes, fridges, clothing, and sanitary products will be removed.

The Australian economy is expected to to post another weak growth result in the December quarter of 2023.

‘The sorts of advertising that we’ve seen from that group goes well beyond the acceptable norms of ... sensible Australian politics,’ said Jim Chalmers.

Most Australians would correctly observe that their banking sector is an oligopoly.

‘We want people to earn more and we want workers, every taxpayer, to keep more of what they earn,’ the treasurer said.

Economists had predicted the unemployment rate to remain steady.