The State Government is moving forward with its plans to grow WA’s screen industry and workforce through incentives, admitting it likely wouldn’t be popular with the US President.
Liam Murphy
Rita Saffioti has shrugged off criticism of WA’s rising debt levels during heated debate in Parliament, insisting the State’s AAA credit rating is proof it is sustainable.
Jessica Page
The national tax office has warned Australians to be patient in lodging their tax returns as the financial year comes to an end.
Fraser Barton
Australia's largest state budget, criticised as boring and vague, has prompted promises from political hopefuls of a more "transformational" government.
Jack Gramenz and Farid Farid
The Member for Roe has slammed WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti’s State Budget, tabled on Thursday, as “city-focused” and a document full of “wrong priorities”.
Melissa Sheil
Albany Tennis Club has been slated in the State Budget to receive $1.5m in funding to add four courts and floodlighting to its new North Road facility.
Claire Middleton
Plans to prop up ageing coal-fired power stations by a state government have been labelled a "waste of money" amid concerns over its energy transition.
Savannah Meacham and Fraser Barton
Having sped up home approvals, a building laggard is shifting focus to getting construction going in a bid to reduce the biggest strain on family finances.
Jack Gramenz and Alex Mitchell
Property developers and school students can celebrate NSW Labor's third budget, but drivers and some animals are set to lose out.
Luke Costin
The Cook Government has quietly reduced KidSport vouchers that help struggling families from $500 to $300, it can be revealed, as cost of living support is reined in.
“The hydrotherapy pool at Albany Health Campus hasn’t worked for four years, when will it be fixed?”
Albany’s mayor says the $11.5 million dedicated to finishing the upgrades of the Great Southern’s largest airport, announced in last week’s State Budget, means the facility can be completed in early 2026.
As he readies his first budget, ACT Treasurer Chris Steel warns the territory's finances are unsustainable without a health funding boost from the Commonwealth.
Jacob Shteyman
Small business owners in Western Australia have not had their low expectations surpassed in Thursday’s State Budget, with one saying there was little to write home about.
Oliver Lane
Ben Harvey reveals the truth behind the words of a Budget speech that could send you to sleep.
Ben Harvey
WA will see its GST share lift above the legislated 75 cent floor for the first time in more than a decade the Budget has predicted, as Labor prepares to argue for the deal which has proven an economic boon.
Dylan Caporn
The cost-of-living crisis is over for some, if not all. But record population growth means the hospital and housing crisis is not yet abating.
Millions of extra funds will be put into a range of regional infrastructure projects to see them completed, the State Budget has revealed.
Labor will unlock 33,000 residential lots across WA in a $101 million investment in water and power infrastructure in Thursday’s State Budget.
Dylan Caporn and Oliver Lane
WA families appear likely to miss out on power bill credits for the first time in five years as Rita Saffioti prepares to hand down her second Budget.
Jessica Page and Dylan Caporn
Public schools and the way kids get there will both receive major funding boosts when the NSW government unveils its budget next week.
Tom Wark
Pacific workers are being hindered in accessing their Australian superannuation by tricky rules, access to technology and language barriers.
Ben McKay
What is the superannuation tax fight all about and will you have to pay it?
Katina Curtis
Taxpayers are set to foot the bill as interest on debt eats a $29-million-a-day hole in a state budget, despite public service job cuts and higher tax revenue.
Callum Godde
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