The Latest Breaking News from Labor

New policy will divide visa applications into ‘high’ and ‘standard’ priority categories instead of capping numbers

Australia has a big gap between tax and spending. And the people whingeing about it are part of the problem, not the solution.

Institutional investors traditionally shy away from social housing because returns are too low but Labor initiative may change that

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

Economists expected blowout in this year’s mid-year budget update, but the government has unveiled a smaller deficit (with the blowouts coming later).

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.