Budget 2017
Tax plan stokes class war
DAVID CROWEBill Shorten has launched a class war over the federal budget with plans to raise the top personal tax rate.
High earners to carry burden
DAVID URENHigh-income earners will carry most of the burden of the government’s proposed increase in the Medicare Levy.
Delay or drop impost: big banks
DAVID CROWEThe government is under pressure to secure a swift vote in the Senate to legislate the levy as bank chiefs push back.
Lambie defends Gonski funds vote
STEFANIE BALOGHJacqui Lambie has hit back at critics after she secured a $20 million sweetheart package for school funding.
Macquarie cries foul over levy
Scott MurdochMacquarie Group could pay just $69 million a year to meet the Coalition’s bank tax.
Suing for peace is banks’ best bet
RICHARD GLUYASIt’s time for the major banks to put the cutlasses away and get back to work improving ties with Canberra.
No bank levy sunset clause
MICHAEL RODDANThe Turnbull government has introduced draft laws to parliament for its multibillion-dollar levy on the big banks.
Budget illustrated
How The Australian’s cartoonists are seeing the issues behind the federal Budget.
Opinion
Revenue hopes come up short
The epic mishandling and obsessive secrecy surrounding the $6.2bn bank tax is finally coming home to roost.
Ambition and success: how tax cuts ripple through communities
If you have ever paid tax as a small business owner, you would understand why it should be lower.
‘This was not an easy audience’
Malcolm Turnbull may be a former lawyer, but could he have performed as convincingly as Scott Morrison did last night.
‘Honest’ budget built on rubbish
Going backwards in Newspoll will be the bitterest of pills to swallow for Coalition MPs. But something went feral in this budget.
Libs can’t budget for the times
The need for budget repair, like political bias, is in the eye of the beholder.
Ignore grandchildren’s peril
Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison clearly have shifted to the green left.
