State spending has remained high despite public demands for greater fiscal discipline.
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National hasn’t achieved two of its three big fiscal policy promises from the previous election. Thursday’s budget will be a hard sell.
Higher inflation, tighter operating allowances and rising geopolitical uncertainty are turning this year’s budget into a test of national priorities.
While FIFA’s revenues have exploded as fans pay higher-than-ever prices, the relative share of money going to support global soccer development has decreased.
The budget is among the most worst rating since Newspoll started surveying people about it in 1988, but Labor remains ahead.
Even after a federal budget boost, Australia won’t have enough skilled tradespeople to work on existing homes – let alone build the new homes being promised.
All working Australians will receive a permanent $250 ‘tax offset’ from next year in Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget.
The Albanese government has used the first budget of its second term to do what you’d expect a Labor government that had won a massive majority would do.
Nigeria’s government must invest in digital infrastructure to reduce corruption in its budget.
This year, the National Disability Insurance Scheme is expected to cost taxpayers $50 billion. So what needs to change?
Nationals Leader Matt Canavan and Liberal Leader Angus Taylor are very different beasts. With a byelection and budget reply looming, Taylor has challenges aplenty.
Albanese said the fuel crisis won’t prevent the government from delivering its “most ambitious” budget. In doing so, he set the marker of how to judge it.
If growth is the metric that counts, this is not yet the turning point that will deliver rising living standards and jobs for all.
Providing street lighting will need a new approach to infrastructure development.
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With hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed as part of the latest US government shutdown, a scholar explains why such events never occur in the UK.
There’s a new element at play that’s heightening the stakes of budget negotiations in Congress. And it could lead to a shutdown.
France’s government backs a budget aimed at cutting the national debt, but it may lack enough support in parliament. An economist looks at factors behind the debt’s recent climb.
An increasing number of elderly Ghanaians live without daily family support.
Under the proposed budget, several major projects, such as the Mars Sample Return and the Space Launch System, would face cancellation.
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