Australians are having fewer children with the fertility rate tumbling. The treasurer says people should think about having more kids.
Compiling the House of Reps calendar.
Tax cuts,worth on average $1888,and a further round of cost-of-living measures will be at the heart of Jim Chalmers’ third budget.
Hot boy in the house (of representatives).
Using “security” as a justification for a policy initiative opens the door to interventions that are,in the words of former Treasury secretary Dr Ken Henry,“frankly,bad”.
Jim Chalmers,a Brisbane Broncos fanatic,will wonder what hit him after the Reserve Bank signalled higher interest rates for longer.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is poised to deliver a second successive budget surplus,but deficits in coming years to support the economy.
Jim Chalmers will deliver his third budget on May 14. Extra tax,which has bolstered the past two budgets,won’t be enough to offset extra spending.
If Jim Chalmers can deliver on his big picture,Australia will win on a global scale. If not,the title of Christopher Malouf’s Archibald Prize portrait will be vindicated.
The federal budget,if you pay close attention,could reveal Labor’s hand – and its plan to be sensible but boring.
Why would Anthony Albanese and his smart economists,Jim Chalmers and Chris Bowen,want to reverse the bipartisan policy of the past 40 years and take us back to the future?