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'Boring' budget to get finances ready for future shocks

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.

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Queensland state budget 2025: five key takeaways

A looming wage fight, the end of the coal boom and a shared equity scheme for first home buyers is on the cards

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Penny-pinching NSW budget lacks vision and offers few solutions to state’s most pressing problems

The Minns Labor government appears obsessed with keeping the state’s AAA ratings – so citizens of New South Wales will just have to wait

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Queensland treasurer rejects budget ‘horror show’ and finally exorcises Campbell Newman’s ghost

David Janetzki’s ‘no austerity’ budget grows the public sector, increases state debt to more than $200bn and is relatively free of ideological nasties

The Guardian - AU

Queensland state budget 2025: LNP to boost spending and hire more frontline staff as debt projected to top $200bn

Treasurer David Janetzki says his ‘no austerity’ measures aim to end Labor scare campaigns about job cuts

The Guardian - AU

NSW budget 2025 winners and losers

Developers and police the big winners in state budget while injured workers and koalas lose out

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Housing push the centrepiece of NSW budget which projects $3.43bn deficit next financial year

Financial position of Australia’s most populous state then expected to improve with a projected surplus by 2027-28

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Surplus in sight but few sweeteners in 'careful' budget

A nation-first approach to back up housing projects headlines Australia's largest state budget as critics attack surplus projections and support for services.

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Debt forecast has alarm bells ringing for Olympic hosts

A state government's debt is set to reach record heights as it plans an Olympics, with the threat of higher borrowing costs for major infrastructure projects.

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Queensland budget 2025: Crisafulli vows no austerity despite state facing $218bn debt

Premier says you can ‘respect people’s money’ and still lift public services as LNP hands down first budget since 2014

The Guardian - AU

Tasmanian leaders struggle with a basic fact: environment laws should protect the environment

Nature in Australia’s smallest state is in poor health, but this has been largely ignored by both major parties in the lead-up to the early state election

The Guardian - AU

An international law expert says US strikes on Iran were illegal. Here’s why

ANALYSIS: Donald Rothwell says, under the UN Charter, there are just two ways in which a state can lawfully use force against another state

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NSW upper house president seeks advice from Bret Walker over possible political staffer arrests

High-profile barrister consulted over arrest warrants for five government staffers who did not attend inquiry into Dural ‘fake terrorism plot’

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View from the Hill: Albanese supports US bombing, reluctantly

When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong went out on Monday to back the United States attack on Iran, it was obvious their support was through gritted teeth.

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The Guardian - AU

As the US chooses destruction over diplomacy in Iran, Australia has to decide between principle and prostration

Australia, like Little Sir Echo, whimpers after the world’s premier bully bombs the ‘bully of the Middle East’

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Why the US strikes on Iran are illegal and can set a troubling precedent

After the United States bombed Iran’s three nuclear facilities on Sunday, US President Donald Trump said its objective was a “stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror”.

The Guardian - AU

Lambie labels Trump a ‘bloody sociopath’ – as it happened

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Voters want AFL stadium deal redo but leaders unmoved

A survey shows two-thirds of voters in one state believe they're getting a raw deal on an AFL stadium as election day approaches.

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Animal cruelty action dogged by tight leash on funds

Advocates say animals will suffer after a cruelty investigator had to cut its operations, but a state government says there's no "endless supply" of funds.

The Guardian - AU

Victoria’s Liberals saved John Pesutto from bankruptcy. But can they save themselves from all-out war?

Since Moira Deeming won a defamation case against the former leader, internal strife has intensified. Now a loan to Pesutto by the party threatens to rip it apart

The Conversation

West Australian miners flexed their muscle to block a federal EPA last year. Will it be different this time?

This week, Environment Minister Murray Watt met with groups representing business, the environment, renewable energy and First Nations communities in a bid to restart Labor’s stalled environmental reforms. There was one group in the room Watt presumably had to woo hardest: Western Australia’s miners.

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Education minister intervenes to address crisis unfolding at ANU – as it happened

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Budget billions helps cashed-up state lead debt battle

A seventh surplus budget for the nation's richest state sets it apart from other jurisdictions as it enjoys the lowest debt levels in the country.

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Grattan on Friday: Sussan Ley has her first big outing with the national media next week, so here are some questions for her

On Wednesday, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will front the National Press Club. So why is that a big deal?

The Guardian - AU

Protest at Sydney synagogue wasn’t targeting ‘religious event’ but Israel Defense Forces speaker, court told

NSW Labor’s anti-protest laws protecting places of worship have ‘chilling effect’ on democracy, Palestine Action Group barrister tells supreme court

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