Winners and losers: public service
The Department of Human Services will shed nearly 1200 full-time jobs next financial year.
Tom McIlroy is a political reporter for Fairfax Media in the federal press gallery at Parliament House.
The Department of Human Services will shed nearly 1200 full-time jobs next financial year.
Older Australians downsizing from large family homes have received a generous push in the federal budget.
The budget will make it easier to complain about banks
Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan will get another seven years at the head of the Australian Taxation Office, with the agency looking to hit more multinationals with tax bills amounting to $4 billion.
Former Liberal minister Andrew Robb pressed the Turnbull government to hold a royal commission into the banks but one with a narrower scope to stymie the Labor party's assault on the major banks, cabinet sources say.Â
Communications Minister Mitch Fifield has urged Australia Post chairman John Stanhope to appear at Senate estimates in two weeks to justify the high salaries at the government-owned business.
Oil giant BP has dumped controversial plans to drill in the Great Australia Bight, ending a proposal which raised fears of an environmental disaster.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on the big banks to pass on the full official 0.25 per cent interest rate cut or explain to customers why they won't.
Canberra's national cultural institutions were hit hard by the budget.
The ACT government will receive an extra $37 million in federal funding for health and education.
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