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The federal government has found a new way to manage the number of international students in Australia.

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With voters distracted by Christmas, the government has saved major announcements for 2025, using the mini-budget to prove it can get its sums right

Labor continues to fiddle with the margins of the economy rather than use the power of government to deliver reform.

Budget downgrade blamed on Australian economy being hit harder than anticipated by higher interest rates, cost of living pressures and global uncertainty

A national Essential poll , conducted December 11–15 from a sample of 1,151, gave the Coalition a 48–47 lead including undecided, unchanged from the late November Essential poll. Primary votes were 35% Coalition (steady), 30% Labor (down two), 13% Greens (up two), 6% One Nation (down two), 1% UAP (steady),…

Jim Chalmers is trying to spin the upcoming budget deficit by pointing out the improvement since the last government, and Vanuatu has been shaken by a devastating earthquake.

Readers might not like it, but it’s clear which politician has been most brutally effective in 2024.

Australia is set to roll back into deficit when the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook is released tomorrow, and the government has handed the ABC a $40m funding increase.

Review to reveal $14.6bn in savings and $16.3bn for payments and programs, including pensions and childcare subsidies

Peter Dutton’s path ‘would be an absolute failure’ in decarbonising the electricity sector and meeting Australia’s emission targets, analyst says