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The Federal Budget was handed down last night by the Treasurer, Dr Jim Chalmers, and included measures to ease cost of living pressures, provide for those who are disadvantaged or excluded, and, of course, provide a budget surplus of $4 billion dollars. Speaking with Roderick Chambers in Parliament House Canberra, Dr Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for …
Tonight Treasurer Jim Chalmers will deliver his second budget, with an announcement of a surplus for the first time in 15 years. Some of the policies already announced for this year’s budget are cost of living support, a pay increase for aged care workers, and more money for defence. Produced By: Amanda Copp Featured In …
The country’s peak social welfare body says the proposed overhaul of the Reserve Bank (RBA) underscores the notion that the board has long been out of touch with ordinary Australians. The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) said the changes are aimed at creating a Reserve Bank board that is more in touch with the …
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The Federal Government’s indication to not adopt a committee recommendation to raise Jobseeker payments in next month’s budget, has been met with anger. An Adelaide-based poverty advocacy group says this is “abandoning the most vulnerable” during the cost of living crisis. The Federal Government created the Economic Inclusion Committee last year to review …
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As the Treasurer Jim Chalmers has bluntly said there will be no extension to the middle and low income earner tax rebate and this could mean tax rebates of around $600 less come June 30 this year. For the Government who ran an election campaign on cost of living pressures, this additional hit along with …
Escalating food insecurity has been attributed to a ‘perfect storm’ of influences including: changes in supply, impacts from floods, rising interest rates and booming living costs, reshaping the need for food relief. Produced By: Emma Wotzke Featured In Story: Greg Pattinson – CEO of Foodbank South Australia and Central Australia First aired on The Wire, …
Over half a million Australians are struggling to put food on the table, with the rising cost of living being the major cause, according to the latest Foodbank report released in October last year. This is closely followed by Australian Bureau of Statistics data revealing that over the last twelve months all living cost …
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The energy market has undergone a year of instability, with the new government scrambling to make things work. Price imbalances have left Australians uneasy, with no clear end in sight, leaving questions in the air about how we can stabilize the energy market. Image: Image: Shutterstock – Sergei Domashenko Produced By: Andrew Herlinger …