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Treasurer’s word Australia’s questions for ScoMo

BLOG RECAP: In a blog with readers, Scott Morrison answered your questions on the bank levy, drug testing for the dole and more Budget policies.

Bogus email Aussies warned of Origin Energy hoax

TENS of thousands of Australians have been targeted by a fake Origin Energy email containing dangerous malware designed to infect the user’s system.

Budget fallout Shorten playing ‘class war politics’

THE Turnbull government has launched an attack on Bill Shorten, who will argue the Coalition should retain a tax on the rich in his budget reply speech.

Budget row Labor seizes on major tax blowout

BILL Shorten calls it a ‘hand-out’ to big business. But Malcolm Turnbull is defending a corporate tax rate cut that will cost a whopping $65 billion.

ScoMo accused of ‘Labor-like’ Budget

TREASURER Scott Morrison has been attacked for having a ‘Labor-like’ Budget, after he scrapped $13 billion in zombie savings.

Health budget Doctor visits about to get cheaper

THE cost of seeing a doctor could fall for the first time in four years and the price of some medicines are set to drop, spelling good news for sick Aussies.

Funding cuts Tourism one of Budget’s big losers

AUSTRALIA’s $100 billion tourism industry was hit hard in Scott Morrison’s Budget on the back of funding cuts and a rise in visiting costs.

Health matters $15m plan to boost vaccinations

FAMILIES who fail to immunise their children and who do not get their four-year-olds health checked will lose cash from their Family Tax Benefit payments.

Social policy Bid to fund NDIS sparks $6b search

TREASURER Scott Morrison will look to fill a $6 billion hole amid plans to fully fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme beyond 2019.

FROM AROUND THE SITE

Jail for casino croupier ‘forced into drug trade’

A YOUNG casino croupier’s experimentation with cocaine led to a gun being held to his head as drug dealers forced him to become an interstate “drug mule” — earning him an eight-year prison sentence.

Qantas sued over in-flight meal

QANTAS is being sued by a man who claims he almost ate a hypodermic needle found in his in-flight meal — but the airline is questioning how it got there.

Labor seizes on major tax blowout

BILL Shorten calls it a ‘hand-out’ to big business. But Malcolm Turnbull is defending a corporate tax rate cut that will cost a whopping $65 billion.

How rich Australia’s banks really are

MALCOLM Turnbull says Australia’s big four banks are among the most profitable in the world. As a row continues over their $6.2b levy, this is how they stack up.

Schools can forget future power bills

PUBLIC schools and preschools will have more money available to spend in the classroom after the State Government agreed to foot every power bill.

Trump’s burn list: who’s next?

AS the body count from the Trump presidency goes up, which member of his administration will be next to hear those immortal words ‘You’re Fired’?

New South Wales

Daily Telegraph

Robber foiled by ‘tough old girls’ gets jail

A WOULD-BE armed robber who got a taste of his own medicine when he took on “tough old girls” at a Western Sydney chemist will spend the next year-and-a-half years behind bars.

Muslims incident: ‘I don’t see anything wrong’

A WOMAN who allegedly bashed four Muslim students for wearing hijabs in Sydney said “I don’t see anything wrong with that” when she appeared in court.

’I turned my Facebook posts into $20m’

NORTHERN beaches mum Irene Falcone says you can create a multi-million dollar enterprise while sitting at your kitchen table ... and using Facebook.

South Australia

The Advertiser

Warning on steel protectionism

POLITICIANS demanding that only steel produced in Whyalla be used in the Federal Government’s $8.4 billion inland rail program must be careful what they wish for, an international trade expert says.

Minister: ‘I bumped into him at Bunnings’

UPDATED: EMBATTLED Minister Leesa Vlahos says the only contact she’s had with SA’s mental health chief over the Oakden disgrace was a chance meeting at Bunnings — as she comes under fire over Facebook posts.

Revealed: The Salt Creek monster

THE identity of the vicious predator who terrorised two young female backpackers at Salt Creek can now be revealed — along with new details about his escalating pattern of sex attacks.

Western Australia

PerthNow

A baby is in hospital after being run over in the driveway of a Perth home.

Baby hit by van outside Midland house

A BABY has been taken to hospital with serious but not life threatening injuries after it was hit by a tradie’s van on a Midland driveway this afternoon.

CFMEU handed hefty fines for rally

CFMEU secretary Mick Buchan outside the new Perth Children's Hospital, under construction. The union claims asbestos has been found in construction materials. PICTURE: NIC ELLIS THE WEST AUSTRALIAN

The CFMEU and seven of its senior officials have been handed hefty fines for three contraventions of the Fair Work Act at the site of the new Perth Children's Hospital.

Illegal workers 'crammed into houses'

Figure involved in the Le brothers Carabooda market garden trial Cahn Le, on his way into court. Pic Michael O'Brien - The West Australian - 25th July 2014 -

THE trial of two Vietnamese brothers accused of running an illegal labour-hire workforce in Perth has heard the employees endured cramped, unsanitary and stifling conditions.

Northern Territory

NT News

Doing for the love of giving back

AFTER more than 33 years of service with the NT Police, Garry Casey took up a volunteer position as a unit officer with the NT Emergency Services

National award for Food Futures event

BEING nationally recognised for the 2016 Northern Australia Food Futures Conference will have a positive flow on effect for securing future conventions for the NT, event organiser Natalie Bell said