Federal Budget 2017

Treasurer Scott Morrison prepares the budget from his office in the Treasury building in Canberra.

Budget deficit improvement 'looks like a rounding error', says CBA economist

Treasurer Scott Morrison flags further action if the budget fails to cool the housing market.

Morrison flags further action if housing market fails to cool

Draw a line on the Coalition's economic performance

Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham presented his higher education plans to university leaders at a ...

Vice-chancellors hit out at fee hikes, funding cuts

A new two-tiered fee system is being considered.

Uni reforms show PM does not want a repeat of Tony Abbott's 2014 horror show

ANALYSIS

Education Minister Simon Birmingham says the new university reform package deserves to pass the Parliament.

Eight per cent fee increase, earlier repayments, funding cuts

Scott Morrison and his Coalition colleagues are not the "models of pinstriped fiscal rectitude" they purport to be, ...

Morrison says housing 'scalpel' already working

Treasurer Scott Morrison says the government's scalpel approach to housing affordability is working.

Calls for tax cuts, housing reform pre-budget

Student choices can be affected by "strange things".

'Don't cry poor': Unis to have budgets cut, student fees to rise

EXCLUSIVE

Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said the government would respond to the external dispute review on budget night.

One-stop complaints scheme for banks and insurers tipped in federal budget

Scott Morrison's second budget, to be handed down next Tuesday, is set to forecast a surplus in 2020-21.

Surplus, AAA rating at risk in homebuyer-friendly budget

Uni funding cuts: who is saying what

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The Federal budget will include significant cuts to university funding and there are no shortages of opinion on it.

Better days are ahead: ScoMo

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The Treasurer has touched on debt, wages growth and housing affordability ahead of the Federal budget while Labor has its own ideas on getting back to surplus.

The month of budget rabbits

With a month left for the final push and shove and lobbying that goes into formulating a budget Scott Morrison has to pull several rabbits out of his hat. Michael Pascoe comments.

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