Eryk Bagshaw is Fairfax Media's economics correspondent based in Parliament House, Canberra. He was previously The Sydney Morning Herald's education reporter.
The sector that has the most to gain from funding changes under the Omnibus bill has slammed the government's bill as unfair. "We just don't believe that it's necessary to predicate investment in early childhood eduction through savings in other areas," the Senate committee hearing into the Omninbus bill has been told.
University students on youth allowance "would struggle to pay the rent" and "feed themselves" under changes to the federal government's omnibus bill, a senate committee has heard, after being stripped of their income for five weeks between leaving university and finding paid employment.
The shared home ownership scheme being watched with interest by the federal government has put more than 100,0000 people into homes in the past decade.
Home buyers would only have to pay for 75 per cent of their total house price under a plan praised by Scott Morrison.
During four decades on the land, rarely has Guy Milson seen as season as good as this one. And neither has the rest of Australia.
Labor's human services spokeswoman Linda Burney has referred Human Services Minister Alan Tudge to the Australian Federal Police over allegations he broke the law by releasing the personal information of a Centrelink recipient to the media.
Human Services Minister Alan Tudge is getting regular updates from his department on welfare recipients who are "criticising or unhappy with the system", a senate estimates committee has been told.
Australia has avoided a second consecutive quarter of negative economic growth, rising by 1.1 per cent in the December quarter and beating market expectations.
Treasury boss John Fraser has implored Parliament to consider cutting the company tax rate, saying it would be "critical" to respond to international competition.
Company profits have surged to record highs at the same time wages suffered their sharpest decline in eight years.
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