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Former treasurer will become chairman of investment bank in Australia and New Zealand in move that prioritises ‘precious time’ with his family

The Coalition risks sacrificing an election promise on small business tax cuts to pull a political stunt on climate change, Labor claims.

Did the budget leave the Albanese government, just one year old this week, the maximum amount of political room to move?

Forget the various polls and pundits, the real voice of the Australian people has spoken: Peter Dutton is a dud – and getting worse.

Tuesday’s budget will forecast a surplus of about $4 billion for this financial year – the first Commonwealth budget surplus in a decade and a half.

The scrapping of the interest rate floor five years ago has led to "bad outcomes" for many Australians who secured ultra-cheap home loans during the pandemic and are now facing a fall over the mortgage cliff, says a former head of credit risk at the nation's financial regulator.

Instead of tackling the fallacy and lie, the review came up with this: 'There should be increased joint work between Treasury and the RBA'.

The treasurer has defended the government's decision to push ahead with the phase-out of the tax offset for low- and middle-income earners.

If Scott Morrison was the self-described ‘bulldozer’, Peter Dutton’s Liberal Party is like an out-of-date steamroller. Julia Banks writes.

Frydenberg hasn’t declared whether he will run again for Kooyong, but he hasn’t lost his political ambition., Michelle Grattan writes.

One of those closely watching the extraordinary legal face-off between independent Monique Ryan and her former high-profile staffer, Sally Rugg, will be Josh Frydenberg, who lost Kooyong to the “teal” at last year’s election.