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Jim Chalmers’ confidence in plans to attract massive amounts of private capital to critical minerals has been boosted by new forecasts showing six years of continuous business investment growth.
Social media giants will be scrutinised in a new parliamentary inquiry as the Federal Government vows to make them accountable for online harm and misinformation
The grandmother who was allegedly bashed unconscious by a former immigration detainee inside her home has called for an inquiry into the events that led up to the traumatic ordeal.
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The number of people in jobs is growing much faster than previously thought, with next week’s Budget books set to reveal an extra 150,000 positions will be created over the next year.
A resilient WA economy is the envy of the rest of Australia, the State Government says, with Treasurer Rita Saffioti to bank a $3.2 billion surplus next month and another near that level next year.
Rita Saffioti has handed down her first Budget since becoming Treasurer last year. Here’s everything you need to know.
Parental concerns about children being ‘forced’ to attend Rossmoyne Senior High School’s prayer room by the radicalised teenager who went on to stab a stranger have been revealed in a letter to WA Police.
China has claimed a widely condemned on-water incident that forced an Australian helicopter to take evasive action to avoid flares was a spying operation.
Former high-profile Senator Natasha Stott Despoja has announced her 20-year marriage to political power-broker Ian Smith has ended and she didn’t see it coming.
Treasurer Rita Saffioti is expected to reveal a healthy but slimmer surplus and spending to fight inflation in the WA budget.
A tougher ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ policy to encourage the development of offshore gas fields could be in the pipeline as the Federal Government looks to prevent looming supply shortfalls.
The Federal Government is banking on a continued decline in the inflation rate to drive what it expects will be some of the fastest growth in real disposable income in more than a decade.
The grandparents who were allegedly bashed and robbed in their home by a detainee released by the High Court say they feel ‘sad and humiliated’ the Prime Minister hasn’t personally apologised to them.
EDITORIAL: Economists are barracking for a constrained Budget that keeps spending at or below current levels. The country can’t afford for Dr Chalmers to put a foot wrong.
KATINA CURTIS: Economists might have a clear-cut view of the way the world should be but when you add the brutal realities of politics into the mix, that cost-benefit analysis becomes a lot murkier.