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As Anthony Albanese (right) promotes Budget spending, Tim Wilson is promising to back entrepreneurs, small business people and ‘self starters’.

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Wilson backs business as Albanese bumbles Budget breakdown

As the PM promotes Budget spending, Tim Wilson is promising to back entrepreneurs, small business people and ‘self starters’.

Aaron Patrick

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Erin Bell says without careful consultation and targeted exemptions, there was a real risk these reforms would unintentionally weaken one of the few sectors ‘actively building Australia’s future economic competitiveness’.

StartupsCommentsPremiumTax overhaul to dampen interest amid dire startup landscape

WA startups fear Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ capital gains tax overhaul could dampen investor appetite in what they say is already a dire funding landscape, warning of ‘devastating’ impacts on the ecosystem.

Cheyanne Enciso

Anthony Albanese is defending the Budget after Chris Minns demanded more action to combat bracket creep. 

Federal PoliticsVideoComments‘Working families getting stung’: Minns breaks ranks on tax

Post-Budget Labor tensions are spilling into the open, with Chris Minns challenging Anthony Albanese over broken promises and rising tax burdens.

Andrew Greene

Australia is years behind in dealing with the cybersecurity risks from Chinese-made cars like BYD.

Federal PoliticsVideoCommentsAussie rules on cybersecurity in cars lags behind partners

Australia is years behind in dealing with the cybersecurity risks from Chinese-made cars as they become some of the country’s most popular vehicles, an MP has warned.

Katina Curtis

Foreign investors in mining and energy projects are going to be hit with retrospective CGT tax bills dating back 20 years after changes made in the Federal Budget.

MiningVideoCommentsPremiumRetrospective CGT changes hit mining, energy projects

Foreign investors will be further scared off Australian mining and energy — pushing up power prices and crippling the nascent critical minerals industry — by a retrospective change to capital gains tax rules.

Katina Curtis

Anthony Albanese has laughed off a growing backlash over his budget changes to the capital gains tax.

Small BusinessCommentsPremiumFamily businesses fight back on capital gains tax changes

The lobby group for small business owners is hoping enough nervous Labor MPs raise concerns about tax changes that could cause unemployment to rise.

Stephen Johnson

The Coalition has called for the Government to intervene in the return of a second cohort of ISIS-linked women and children as they’re expected to touch down in Australia within days.

Federal PoliticsVideoCommentsCoalition call for intervention in return of ISIS brides

The Coalition has called for the Government to intervene in the return of a second cohort of ISIS-linked women and children as they’re expected to touch down in Australia within days.

Caitlyn Rintoul and Kristin Shorten

NSW Premier Chris Minns has unleashed an extraordinary swipe at the Albanese government over its inaction on bracket creep, saying Australians are being ‘stung’.

Federal PoliticsComments‘Urgent action’: Minns unleashes on PM over bracket creep

RECAP: NSW Premier Chris Minns has unleashed an extraordinary swipe at the Albanese government over its inaction on bracket creep, saying Australians are being ‘stung’.

Chloe Maher and Max Corstorphan

Shadow treasurer Tim Wilson (pictured left with Angus Taylor) is set to announce the Coalition’s plans to solidify small businesses’ rights, including to bid on government contracts, and have a voice on new laws.

Federal PoliticsVideoCommentsCoalition announces bid to strengthen small business rights

Shadow treasurer Tim Wilson is set to announce the Coalition’s plans to solidify small businesses’ rights, including to bid on government contracts, and have input into new laws.

Katina Curtis

Trust is in short supply in politics right now, mostly due to the Federal broken-promises Budget. Pictured: Rita Saffioti, Roger Cook, and Anthony Albanese.

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Will Albanese use word games to wriggle out of GST pledge?

What is WA’s ‘fair share’? Is that the same as current share? Or is it leaving wriggle room to claim a reduced share is ‘fair’?

The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, in Perth today with the Premier of Western Australia, Roger Cook and the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister and Member for Perth, Patrick Gorman. At a build to rent constuction site at 195 Pier Street Perth. Sandra Jackson

Federal politicsVideoCommentsPremiumFuel, fertiliser heading to WA but global shocks to continue

Three new shipments of jet fuel and 38,500 tonnes of fertiliser is on its way to WA, as the cut to Australia’s fuel excise in response to global shortages and price hikes is due to end on June 30.

Jessica Page

Anthony Albanese has left the door open to further tweaks to the tax policies central to last week’s Federal Budget, as he and his Treasurer continue to struggle to sell their plan to a sceptical public. 

Federal PoliticsVideoCommentsDelays to tax changes hint at possible budget backflip

Anthony Albanese has left the door open to further tweaks to the tax policies central to last week’s Federal Budget, as he and his Treasurer continue to struggle to sell their plan to a sceptical public. 

Katina Curtis

A week after the Budget, Labor is still scrambling to deal with the fallout over broken promises and confusing tax changes.

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Labor’s whack-a-mole week of Budget backlash

A week after the Budget, Labor is still scrambling to deal with the fallout over broken promises and confusing tax changes.

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Labor’s plan to replace the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount with a minimum tax on capital gains would discourage risk taking in the tech sector.

StartupsVideoCommentsPremiumTech bosses warn Labor’s CGT could push start-ups overseas

A tech boss developing Australia’s answer to WhatsApp and Slack is warning start-ups will leave Australia for New Zealand because of Labor’s new minimum 30 per cent capital gains tax.

Stephen Johnson

A Collins-class submarine heading out to sea from Fleet Base West.

Federal PoliticsCommentsMajor change as doubts grow over ageing Collins class subs

Defence has dramatically changed course as doubts grow over how long the 30-year-old Collins-class fleet can stay afloat.

Andrew Greene

Former SAS soldier Peter Winnall, right, has been slammed for a joke he made online about murder allegations faced by war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith (centre). The comments were made on a social media post that also poked fun at Canning MP and SAS veteran Andrew Hastie (left).

Courts & JusticeCommentsPremiumFormer SAS officer slammed over BRS murder allegation joke

A former officer in the Special Air Service Regiment and critic of Ben Roberts-Smith has been slammed on social media for joking about the murder charges against the Victoria Cross awardee.

Aaron Patrick

LNG exporters will be forced to quarantine 20 per cent of their gas exports from July 1, 2027 for the domestic market, under the plan unveiled in last week’s Federal Budget.

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Gas reservation plan will ‘kill’ projects and companies

Australia’s energy producers remain on edge about the Albanese Government’s contentious new gas reservation policy.

Rebecca Le May

The Prime Minister says a decision to remove a group of Chinese investors from one of the country’s most significant critical mineral deposits is about protecting Australia’s national interest and sovereignty.

MiningCommentsPremiumBeijing lashes Australia over Northern Minerals stock move

Australia has been told to ‘earnestly respect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese investors’ after the Albanese government forced the hand over several Beijing-linked companies.

Andrew Greene and Daniel Newell

Treasurer Jim Chalmers cited the Iran war, which started after US-Israel led strikes on February 28, among a raft of issues for his broken promises Budget. 

Federal PoliticsCommentsREVEALED: When Labor secretly started looking at tax change

The details come as Jim Chalmers had cited the Iran war, which started after US-Israel led strikes on February 28, among a raft of issues for his broken promises Budget. 

Caitlyn Rintoul

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Labor is willing to wear short-term political pain.

Federal PoliticsCommentsChalmers pushes CGT changes amid warning for young investors

RECAP: Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Labor is willing to wear short-term political pain, as new modelling reveals younger investors could be hit with tens of thousands more in tax under proposed changes.

Kimberley Braddish and Max Corstorphan

The resources industry wants the government to improve investment conditions and competitiveness. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

MiningCommentsPremiumMiners demand stable tax settings as PM heads west

As Anthony Albanese continues travelling across Australia to sell an unpopular federal budget, the resources sector is demanding stability from the government.

Tess Ikonomou

Australians are waiting an average of 396 days to get into an ongoing residential aged-care spot, three months after the new system started.

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‘Not good enough’: Aged care waiting times in crisis

While the Government was launching a national argument over what is fair or unfair when it comes to taxing property and trusts, it quietly published a set of numbers that should concern every Australian.

Katina Curtis

The Prime Minister says a decision to remove a group of Chinese investors from one of the country’s most significant critical mineral deposits is about protecting Australia’s national interest and sovereignty.

MiningCommentsPremiumCanberra strips Chinese stake in WA rare earths firm

The Prime Minister says a decision to remove a group of Chinese investors from one of the country’s most significant critical mineral deposits is about protecting Australia’s national interest and sovereignty. 

Daniel Newell, Adrian Rauso and Andrew Greene

In politics there can be a time when everything changes. For the Albanese Government that moment is now.

EditorialVideoCommentsPremiumThe moment everything changed for Albanese and Chalmers

In politics there can be a time when everything changes. For the Albanese Government that moment is now.