Morrison takes on his own over super

Treasurer Scott Morrison has ramped up the war on dissidents in his own party over over superannuation, distributing a briefing paper portraying those hurt by his budget measures as high-income tax minimisers.

Super will be Turnbull's key test: Grattan Institute

The Grattan Institute has identified superannuation as the most important test of Malcolm Turnbull's leadership.

Tax cuts to flow after backdown

Asked why it had backed down, the ATO said though a spokeswoman it had made a political judgement.

'Book famine' as government prepares to miss deadline

The Turnbull government has been accused of extending Australia's "book drought" by sitting on draft legislation designed to give blind, partially sighted and dyslexic Australians the same sort of access to audio and braille books that's available overseas.

Morrison levels with us: We have a revenue problem after all

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Now he tells us. Within days of his appointment as treasurer last year Scott Morrison rashly assured us he faced "a spending problem, not a revenue problem".

An attempt to shock us out of our complacency, for what?

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One year into his job as treasurer, Scott Morrison has conceded that he does have a revenue problem after all, and delivered a stirring defence of... not that much.

Xenophon leads push to axe inflation target

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Senate powerbroker will move next week to upend the traditional contract between the treasurer and the governor of the Reserve Bank.

We're moving part-time as the jobs market hollows out

An election-driven burst of part-time employment has pushed the unemployment rate down to 5.7 per cent, disguising a continuing slide in the number of Australians employed full-time.

Code Red: inside the census debacle

Last February, at what ought to have been the height of preparations for this year's census, its head, Duncan Young, sent the Bureau of Statistics executive a crisis memo.