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 ...

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

After recording two years of budget surplus, the Labor government says it expects a small deficit in the 2024-25 Financial ...

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

The government is setting expectations its run of budget surpluses is coming to an end, forecasting that a major hit to mining exports in the years ahead will undermine Australia's federal budget by ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has dodged a question about the budget while shooting down a rumour about the upcoming election.

Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor says the primary strategy of Treasurer Jim Chalmers is to “sack and stack” the board and politicise the Reserve Bank. Aussies were given no relief on Tuesday ...