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Labor's first budget back in government will make income inequality worse, and the stage 3 tax cuts are mainly to blame

Well-off households will get a $5,740 income boost from the Albanese government's biggest budget measures. The poorest will get just $17.

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Election relief measures abandoned: Dutton

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says the government has abandoned election pledges to lower electricity bills, but Labor says the coalition has no solutions.

AAP

Micaela Cronin a former social worker named the new domestic violence commissioner

Micaela Cronin will begin at the newly established commission next week and will be responsible for tracking the implementation of the new national plan to end violence against women and children within "one generation".

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Grattan on Friday: Cost of living goes from a winner for Albanese in May to a weapon for Dutton in October

An opposition leader has a tricky task when delivering a first budget reply after an election rout. But circumstances played into the hands of Peter Dutton for his big parliamentary occasion on Thursday night.

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Explained: How Labor’s industrial overhaul could change your work and wages

The Albanese government has introduced its long-awaited overhaul of industrial relations laws to Parliament, promising to get wages moving.

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Peter Dutton warns on green energy moves, cites ‘broken promises’, but offers no new policies

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton criticised the government for not extending any direct cost-of-living relief to voters.

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Peter Dutton uses federal budget reply speech to attack government’s ‘missed opportunity’ to help Australians in need

Opposition leader also targeted Labor over school curriculum, saying parents were worried about ‘radical gender theory’

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More time needed to examine Labor’s IR bill, say crossbench senators and employer groups

Workplace relations minister says Australians have ‘waited long enough’ for changes but has left door open to amendments

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Labor's budget is a 'missed opportunity' to help Australians in time of need

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton dubs Labor's first budget a failure filled with broken promises in tackling the cost-of-living crisis.

ABC News

'Ditch Dan' probe won't crash Vic election

The outcome of an electoral commission investigation of the Victorian Liberal Party's "Ditch Dan" donation drive won't be known before the state election.

AAP

Will your energy bills ever come down? Only if Labor gets serious with the gas majors

Over the next two years, energy prices are expected to rise by a whopping 56%. That’s the dismal forecast in this week’s federal budget.

The Conversation

Labor’s industrial relations bill: how will it change Australia’s workplaces?

Albanese government says bill will promote wage growth and limit lengthy industrial action, but how will it do so?

The Guardian - AU

Brisbane City Council approves Brisbane Racing Club's takeover of Stafford Bowls Club lease

Despite concerns over transparency, Brisbane City Council has approved a behind-the-scenes transfer of a lease of the former Stafford Bowls Club from Crushers Leagues Club to Brisbane Racing Club.

ABC News

1 million homes target makes headlines, but can't mask modest ambition of budget's housing plans

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…

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Labor's Budget commitments to the Hunter need timely funding on the follow through

Thanks for the Budget Jim, now keep it coming

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Labor's new workplace relations bill proposes new laws around work flexibility, targets gender pay gap

Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke will introduce Labor's Secure Jobs, Better Pay bill into Parliament, promising to "get wages moving".

AAP

Budget missed chance for relief: Dutton

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.

The Guardian - AU

Federal budget should have raised welfare payments amid cost-of-living crisis, recipients say

Advocates express deep unease about lack of action for people on income support and repeat calls to lift jobseeker rate to $73 a day

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The Guardian - AU

Labor moves to improve access to flexible work for parents, carers and older Australians

‘Secure jobs, better pay’ bill will legally require employers to try to reach flexible agreement with eligible workers

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Australia’s women are no longer seeing their calls for change dismissed as lacking ‘credibility’. Good

Women are central to economic prosperity. This federal budget offers a paradigm shift on gender inequality

The New Daily

Opposition hits out at Labor’s ‘vanity’ budget

The shadow treasurer rejected the concept of the structural deficit at the heart of the budget and said the economy could be grown faster.

The New Daily

Anthony Albanese plays the long game

The sobriety of Budget 2022 reveals much about the political evolution of Anthony Albanese, Matthew Franklin writes.

The New Daily

Migration push means housing shortage remains, despite Labor’s budget fix

Treasurer Jim Chalmers unveiled the government’s plan to accelerate the construction of new housing across the country.

The Conversation

The women's budget is headed in the right direction. But the policies still need work

The Labor federal government promised it would make women central to its first budget.

AAP

Indigenous voice budget funding welcomed

Financial commitments in the federal budget show the government is serious about Indigenous issues, a law academic who helped design the Uluru Statement says.

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