They are the new taxes you probably haven't heard of. but you'll be paying them when you go to the ...
Coal projects in the Galilee Basin and on the door step of the Great Barrier Reef could receive ...
Four Liberal MPs who publicly backed the February spill motion to replace Tony Abbott have hailed ...
Academic website The Conversation will lose a quarter of its annual budget because of the federal ...
The Greens have taken aim at the Commonwealth government's plan to develop Australia's north ...
Which parts of the federal bureaucracy are likely to start hiring?
The budget deficit will blow out by billions of dollars if the "rosy" predictions for economic ...
Treasurer Joe Hockey has found an unusual ally in his plan to boost the economy, with an exclusive ...
The community sector is far from sighing with relief over the Abbott government's plans to drop the ...
Forget debt and deficit disaster or "lifters not leaners. "Have a go" is where it's at for this ...
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has coined the phrase "Tony's tradies" to describe the big winners out ...
The Abbott government will spend nearly $27 million over four years to return radioactive waste ...
Cars, vans, kitchens and machinery – any item used for running the business – have become tax ...
The Indonesian government has downplayed a 40 per cent cut in aid from Australia, insisting it had ...
Opposition leader Bill Shorten has lashed the "disastrous" $80 billion in cuts to schools and ...
It's less ambitious and will no doubt prove more popular with voters. But will the Abbott ...
He promised he'd fix it. Now the surprise has been revealed.
Australian tech start-ups have welcomed a suite of employment and tax tweaks in the federal budget, ...
Slapping GST on Netflix and other multinational technology giants is unlikely to create a level ...
A rampaging Mark Latham has delivered a post-budget verbal assault on live breakfast television.
So you're young, childless, bitter and alone - what's in the budget for you?
Health groups have been left scrambling after the federal budget revealed plans to cut nearly $2 ...
Australia's AAA rating is safe for now after a budget aimed to boost consumer and business ...
Nearly $10 billion for families and small businesses headlines Joe Hockey's "have-a-go ...
Are you one of the winners or losers from this year's budget?
Hardly a wallet was left untouched by Treasurer Joe Hockey's first budget. But this time most ...
The government will cut nearly $2 billion from the health system over the next four years.
A $5 billion loan facility will be set up to promote infrastructure investment across northern ...
Australia's foreign intelligence agency ASIS is set to get a massive funding boost of nearly $300 ...
The Abbott government has backed away from its punitive plan to make the young unemployed wait six ...
The controversial detention centre on Christmas Island will wind back operations, as the Abbott ...
Aid to Indonesia has been cut by nearly half and assistance offered to Africa has plummeted by 70 ...
Tony Abbott is demanding Victoria hand back $1.5 billion of East West Link cash as a major saving ...
Tony Abbott might want to be the "Infrastructure Prime Minister" but there was nothing new to show ...
Backpackers and others on working holidays will be stung with higher income tax bills as a result ...
Rating agencies have welcomed the Abbott government's second budget, saying it recommitted the ...
Before having her daughter, Ms Micallef had previously worked in family daycare and would like to ...
The Abbott government is backing down on its controversial plan to make younger people seeking the ...
There will be no further cuts to foreign aid in tonight's budget, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop ...
Shares bounced back after the 400-point sell-off but the market's next move is still in the balance.
The budget deficit will beat market expectations and come in lower than $41 billion, according to ...
Interactive: Stop worrying about the deficit. We're one of the only nations with a perfect credit ...
The Abbott government will commit a further $450 million to the fight against homegrown terrorism ...
Every lower house federal MP in the country is to be allocated $150,000 for investment in local ...
The Abbott government will have to fight to get its family reforms through the Senate, with key ...
The federal government will spend up to $400 million on its new Australian Border Force agency, ...
Joe Hockey's moves to extract more tax out of multinationals risk starting a revenue war with the ...
Tuesday's budget will for the first time lock in federal funding for Melbourne's controversial East ...
As own goals go, Scott Morrison's was pretty spectacular - a rare gaffe from one of the ...
Thirty multinational companies operating in Australia will face tough new tax liabilities
Media and retail industry leaders have backed Treasurer Joe Hockey's plan to hit ...
The Australian government may have first announced its cuts to foreign aid six months ago, but in ...
Australia risks a "toxic mix" of policies that could be pushing the country towards boom-bust ...
Funding for some of the long-term Australian aid projects established in Indonesia in the wake of ...
Most of us can say "we are the 99 per cent". But where do you fit on the scale of prosperity in ...
In his 20 months as Prime Minister, Tony Abbott has built up an impressive collection of backflips ...
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has indicated Canberra's public service will face more job cuts, ...
The government could soften its position and embark on new spending on childcare without forcing ...
There's nothing the internet loves more than a politician standing in front of a canvas. Joe Hockey ...
If the eyes are a window to the soul, let us have mercy for Joe Hockey.
Treasury officials will not be interrogated about the Abbott government's much-anticipated second ...
Social Services Minister Scott Morrison has responded to speculation he could become Treasurer by ...
Business confidence was unchanged in April, according to the latest National Australia Bank survey.
Almost 80,000 new mums will lose some or all of their government parental leave payments in a move ...
The absurdity of the Abbott government's command-control media strategy was exposed again on Sunday
We compare the current childcare system with the proposed changes in 2017.
How long will it take to address the elephant in the room?
The Queensland Government has one wish ahead of the federal Coalition Government's second budget - ...
Tony Abbott says his government's new $3.5 childcare package to flow from 2017 will "change the ...
To be bringing down our eighth budget in a row with a substantial deficit when, according to ...
How can you spend $3.5 billion on child care when you're already $45 billion in deficit? By waiting ...
Australian women will benefit from a cutting-edge new cervical cancer test.
Australia's population is growing at more than 350,000 a year and it is putting increasing pressure ...
There are fears foreign aid to Nepal will be slashed by 40 per cent in federal budget on Tuesday.
Coalition backbenchers see the budget as the opportunity for Abbott and Hockey to revive the ...
With Tony Abbott now claiming to deliver fairness, what else does Bill Shorten have to offer ...
The Reserve Bank has downgraded its forecasts ahead of next week's budget, saying the economy will ...
Drought-stricken farming communities will have access to $250 million in additional concessional ...
For Joe Hockey to regain Australia's confidence, he needs to explain clearly what he believes to be ...