The big announcement of the 2025 federal budget was $17 billion worth of tax cuts, which have been nothing if not polarising.

Even as the invoices from a more volatile world start arriving, Australia's government is tinkering while Rome smoulders.

You heard what Jim Chalmers said but what did he really mean? Graham Lloyd cuts through the jargon to explain what the budget ...

Have you ever seen a treasurer, obliged on budget night to confirm that the national books have slid $42b into the red on his ...

The Albanese government is delivering an election-eve budget sweetened with tax cuts, which the opposition will be under ...

Jim Chalmers was credited with Labor winning the critical Dunkley by-election through his personal redesign of the stage ...

The Albanese government has touted its latest federal budget as a lifeline for struggling Australians, despite only ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the upcoming federal election will be “a referendum on Medicare” ahead of handing down Tuesday ...

A modest tax cut of $536 a year for each worker is likely to be the last big spending measure Labor will announce before ...

The treasurer’s fourth budget could easily have been a pre-election spendathon that stoked inflation, but the central bank ...

While welcoming a surprise tax cut of $536 a year for workers, business groups say the budget failed to fix stagnant ...

Liberal frontbencher Amanda Vanstone accurately observed that $5 wouldn’t buy you a sandwich and a milkshake, a hot take that ...