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Cost of living crisis

31 March 2025

  • Peter Dutton and Nationals leader David Littleproud meet with Bulloo shire mayor John Ferguson at Thargomindah in Queensland on Monday.

    Australian politics live with Krishani Dhanji
    Coalition pledges $10m for western Queensland weather radar – as it happened

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30 March 2025

  • Greens leader Adam Bandt

    Australia news live
    Bandt says Greens policy ‘adopted’ by Albanese – as it happened

    This blog is now closed.

29 March 2025

  • Christine Dinas holding chicken with others at her feet

    Australians turn to back yard chickens to beat the rising price of eggs

    From pandemic hobby to beating the egg shortage, more people are falling in love with keeping chickens

28 March 2025

  • Celeste Liddle, Melissa Fisher, Anjali Sharma and Steven Herrick

    This election, here’s what Australians across age groups and postcodes want from the next government

    Celeste Liddle, Melissa Fisher, Anjali Sharma and Steven Herrick

  • Key takeaways from Dutton's 'sliding doors' budget reply – video

27 March 2025

  • Person filling their car with fuel in a petrol station

    Richest households will benefit most from Dutton’s fuel tax excise cut, analysis shows

  • Opposition leader Peter Dutton after delivering his 2025-26 Budget Reply Speech

    Dutton unveils gas reservation scheme and vows to sack 41,000 public service workers in ‘sliding doors’ budget reply

26 March 2025

  • A grocery aisle full of products is seen in a Woolworths store

    Groceries are getting more expensive at Woolworths but cheaper at Coles, report finds

  • A property for sale in Sydney

    Australia’s easing inflation rate a boost for mortgage holders eyeing next rate cut – and Labor’s election hopes

25 March 2025

  • Guardian Australia's Matilda Boseley explains the winners, losers and surprises in this year's federal budget
    3:10

    The 2025 Australian federal budget: here's what you need to know – video

  • Weeks away from a federal election, Treasurer Jim Chalmers hands down his fourth budget, saying it is aimed at helping with the cost of living while the Australian economy is 'turning the corner'
    27:13

    Federal budget 2025: watch treasurer Jim Chalmers' full budget speech – video

  • After overseeing back-to-back surpluses thanks to booming commodity prices and a strong labour market, the budget will return to deficit this year and for the foreseeable future
    5:37

    Federal budget 2025: Chalmers delivers speech spruiking tax cuts and energy relief – video

  • Jim Chalmers delivers Australia’s 2025 federal budget

    Jim Chalmers’ 2025 budget speech abridged and annotated – the economy is OK and we’re heading into an election

  • Australian federal budget tax cuts: how much will your household receive?

  • The complete 2025 Australian budget: choose the news coverage that matters to you

  • Federal budget 2025: Labor bets big with $17.1bn in tax cuts to win over middle Australia

  • Budget 2025: Chalmers spruiks a ‘modest but meaningful’ $5 a week in a budget that puts Dutton in a pickle

    Josh Butler

  • Planning a budget night party? Here’s how to get bang for your buck

24 March 2025

  • Cargo ship docks at Port Botany in Sydney

    Chalmers upbeat on eve of budget despite grim debt outlook and jitters over Australia’s ‘fiscal firepower’

    Tuesday’s budget will show Labor’s back-to-back surpluses giving way to a decade of deficits

23 March 2025

  • A residential power meter

    Households guaranteed $150 energy bill rebate as Coalition matches Labor budget pledge

    Shadow treasurer says opposition will not ‘stand in the way’ but calls measure ‘Band-Aid to a bullet wound’ of high power prices
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