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Meet Miriam. She's the "typical Aussie", juggling a family, a part-time job and a growing pile of bills. Not one policy in the budget's five-point plan for cost of living relief will help her now — but for millions like her, crunch time is already here.

Australia's 15.6 million super fund members and retirees need to know what changes have come in with Labor's first budget in nine years

Virtually every country in the world is facing a crisis in energy costs, yet while other countries can’t do much about it, Australia can.

Housing took centre stage in Treasurer Jim Chalmers’s first budget this week. Relatively modest but positive steps were made towards tackling Australia’s worsening shortage of affordable social housing, as well as the broader challenge of housing affordability. But parts of the package cast some doubt on the new government’s analysis…

Pressure mounts on the Commonwealth to fix the electricity system's woes, but observers warn there are no easy solutions and consumers are in for a rough ride.

Thanks for the Budget Jim, now keep it coming

Next Thursday the Sydney Liberal Party faithful are being invited to pay $880 a seat for lunch and to listen to a budget reply.

Peter Dutton has used his first budget reply speech to attack the lack of cost-of-living measures put forward by the government while inflation rises.

Exclusive: Rod Sims argues federal government needs to be tougher, stating ‘it just needs the threat and I think they will act’