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| UpdatedTreasurer Scott Morrison says he is not being sidelined by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the lead-up to May's federal budget, amid concerns his efforts are no longer enough.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, budget, nationals, liberals, scott-morrison, turnbull-malcolm, united-states
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| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull is set to take the lead role in delivering the Government's economic pitch ahead of May's federal budget, amid concern inside the Coalition that Treasurer Scott Morrison's efforts are no longer enough.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, budget, nationals, liberals, scott-morrison, turnbull-malcolm, australia
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A national nanny pilot program aimed at helping parents juggle work and family has been slashed in the mid-year budget update, less than two years after it was introduced.
Topics: child-care, family-and-children, community-and-society, federal-government, government-and-politics, education-industry, education, scott-morrison, social-policy, australia
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| UpdatedTreasurer Scott Morrison says yesterday's budget update bolsters the Government's case for the corporate tax rate to be cut to 25 per cent, but the Opposition says it will stand firm against the proposal saying they "simply can't be afforded".
Topics: budget, federal-government, scott-morrison, chris-bowen, tax, australia
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| UpdatedTreasurer Scott Morrison seeks to distinguish between good and bad public debt, one week before the mid-year economic update and after concerns from global rating agencies.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, scott-morrison, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedDoctors did not ask for a sick Iranian asylum seeker to be transferred to Australia because they believed the request would be denied, an inquest hears.
Topics: scott-morrison, healthcare-facilities, refugees, immigration, community-and-society, federal-government, health, health-policy, papua-new-guinea, australia, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedSix months on from a bank clampdown on foreign lending, tens of thousands of Chinese property investors are struggling to pay for their off-the-plan apartment purchases.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, housing-industry, scott-morrison, government-and-politics, federal-government, industry, foreign-affairs, australia, china
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| UpdatedTreasurer Scott Morrison declares it's a "crying shame" that thousands of welfare recipients in Australia would have to "take a pay cut" if they got a job.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, scott-morrison, community-and-society, welfare, australia
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| UpdatedMorrison says buying a house getting harder
Topics: government-and-politics, scott-morrison, housing-industry, housing, australia
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If Christian Porter were still in state politics he'd probably be Western Australian premier by now.
No wonder his natural rival Treasurer Scott Morrison was anxious to grab some ownership of the "investment approach" welfare initiative.
Topics: federal-government, scott-morrison, welfare, budget, australia, wa
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| UpdatedFinancial investment experts say Australians should not invest their super funds in the coal industry, despite the Treasurer's recent reassurances on commercial radio about the industry.
Topics: coal, industry, scott-morrison, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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Finally – though who knows for how long – we see signs of the Turnbull government pulling up its socks.
The Government needs to tot up more wins, and quite quickly, and not just on budget matters but on other issues too.
Topics: federal-parliament, federal-government, turnbull-malcolm, scott-morrison, pauline-hanson, australia
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| UpdatedEver since the superannuation changes were announced in this year's budget, the Government has been pushing them uphill. In the rain. Without shoes. As it turns out, all it took was a "massive capitulation", for the Government to achieve success on superannuation reforms.
Topics: federal-parliament, liberals, superannuation, turnbull-malcolm, scott-morrison, australia
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urges the Federal Opposition to meet him in the "sensible centre" to fix the budget deficit and avoid angering the Australian public.
Topics: government-and-politics, turnbull-malcolm, budget, scott-morrison, federal-government, brisbane-4000, australia
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| UpdatedTreasurer Scott Morrison warns of a new divide between "the taxed and taxed nots", saying Australia has a generation growing up expecting Government handouts.
Topics: government-and-politics, budget, scott-morrison, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedTreasurer Scott Morrison will today declare Australia has an "earnings problem", in a major economic speech ahead of Parliament's return next week.
Topics: budget, federal-government, scott-morrison, australia
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Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison is urging local superannuation funds to invest more of their $2 trillion in savings in major Australian assets being coveted by Chinese investors.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, superannuation, business-economics-and-finance, scott-morrison, australia
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| UpdatedFederal Treasurer Scott Morrison describes the downgrade of Australia's credit outlook as sobering and urges all members of the forthcoming parliament to reflect on the need for Government to live within its means.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, federal-government, scott-morrison, economic-trends, australia
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| UpdatedScott Morrison weighs in on the debate over same-sex marriage, saying advocates for traditional marriage also endure bigotry following comments from Labor frontbencher Penny Wong claiming a plebiscite would unleash hatred and homophobia.
Topics: federal-elections, elections, government-and-politics, federal-election, gays-and-lesbians, scott-morrison, australia
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| UpdatedOne of Labor's higher profile election policies is a promise to hold a royal commission into "misconduct in the banking and financial services industry".
On April 11, 2016, Treasurer Scott Morrison responded by saying that a royal commission is unnecessary as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, or ASIC, can do the job.
Is Mr Morrison correct? ABC Fact Check investigates.
Topics: banking, federal-elections, scott-morrison, liberals, australia
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Interest rates, not tax, are the overriding forces driving investment and investor behaviour right now. Yet the ideas propounded by Arthur Laffer and others - that cutting taxes will ensure economic growth - persists. It's time we started to ask why.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, budget, scott-morrison, tax, stockmarket, money-and-monetary-policy
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| UpdatedFederal Treasurer Scott Morrison dismisses an RBA memo suggesting winding back negative gearing could be a "good thing", saying the note was prepared in 2014.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, scott-morrison, business-economics-and-finance, housing-industry
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he is "quietly confident" of winning the election off the back of a budget which is not just an attempt to win votes.
Topics: budget, federal-government, turnbull-malcolm, scott-morrison, federal-elections, elections, government-and-politics, australia