Underwhelmed Australian voters look likely to desert the major parties and vote in a hung parliament in 2025. Here are four ...

Australia is experiencing its longest-running per capita recession on record at seven consecutive quarters. This hasn’t stopped Treasurer Jim Chalmers from boasting that record public spending has ...

Labor has a delicate political decision to make: does it call the election before next year's budget, set down for April, or ...

The teal independent says indexation and stamp duty will be on the table if the major parties need to negotiate for a ...

Australia’s budget is expected to slip deeper into deficit in the years ahead due to rising government spending and a weakening in key trade partner China, a mid-year fiscal update showed, with a ...

In its mid-year budget outlook, Labor is effectively doubling down on the bigger-spending, bigger government that has crowded ...

The spending frenzy by federal and state governments is putting the country’s long-term credit rating at risk and setting up ...

KPMG Chief Economist Brendan Rynne says the government will be running “larger and longer” budget deficits. Treasurer Jim ...

Mr Chalmers told Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell on Sunday Agenda that voters had one of two choices. “Labor's plan for a future powered by renewables… versus this economic insanity ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has confirmed a $1.8 billion ‘slippage’ in the upcoming budget due to extra veterans’ payments, putting further pressure on Australia’s widening deficit. Mr Chalmers ...