The decision, announced in response to questions at a news conference on Tuesday, doesn’t appear to have gone through shadow cabinet. Nor did Shorten mention it when he addressed caucus that morning.
Greens urge Labor to vote against the whole of Malcolm Turnbull’s income tax package.
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The estimates have been prepared by the independent PBO, at the request of the Greens. The opposition has repeatedly sought annual figures, but the government resisted the demands.
Freelancing and hot-desking are already common in work places – and will continue to rise.
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There are many disappointments in the government’s response to Innovation and Science Australia’s report ‘Australia 2030: Prosperity through Innovation’.
Forecasting income tax a decade into the future is a tricky proposition.
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The income tax cuts in the 2018 federal budget are likely to be modestly regressive, giving high earners a lower share of the overall tax burden. But by 2028 income tax will be higher across the board.
Michael McCormack on Barnaby’s future, latte sippers and other matters.
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In this interview Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack pointedly avoids saying Joyce should run again in his New England seat at the election.
Indigenous women lose out from the Coalition’s latest budget.
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“Soft” infrastructure includes the services, policies or practices that keep academic research working and open. Without a funded, coordinated national approach the private sector may take control.
While this is Malcolm Turnbull’s 32nd consecutive Newspoll loss as PM, the past two have been narrow losses.
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Polls also have good news for the government, with the two-party preferred gap narrowing and the budget well-received.
Governments have all but abandoned the commitments made a decade ago when Kevin Rudd launched a national campaign to reduce homelessness.
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A decade after the launch of a national campaign against homelessness, the trends are all going the wrong way. A new annual report highlights what’s gone wrong and what must be done.
Most elderly people want to stay at home for as long as possible.
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The Australian government provides a safety net of subsidies for elderly Australians unable to fully fund their own care. But will the extra 14,000 home care places in the budget meet demand?
People who work in the black economy come from industries as diverse as horticulture, retail, cleaning, construction and childcare.
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The black economy is more common than we think – how many of us have paid tradies, gardeners or cleaners cash without the exchange of relevant paperwork?
Labor’s primary vote was up three points in the Fairfax-ipsos poll. The Coalition’s was unchanged.
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A busy week in politics saw the government’s third budget handed down, a reply from the opposition, a tax cuts battle and more byelections triggered by the citizenship crisis.
Bill Shorten delivered his Budget reply speech on Thursday night.
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The Labor alternative almost doubles the budget’s relief for these taxpayers, incorporating the early part of the government’s plan and then building on it.