Budget 2024

Inflation haunts Jim Chalmers’ third budget, but Katy Gallagher is confident responsible measures the government is taking will temper pressures.

A new whole-of-Commonwealth approach to early childhood development has goals for children aged 0-5 years, with four priority areas.

Education Minister Jason Clare announces student debt relief and new “prac support payment” for in-demand skills.

The Albanese government will impose a new tax on the public service on using contractors and labour-hire that will rake in $375 million.

Quantum computing firm PsiQuantum will establish its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Brisbane in exchange for $940 million in concessional loans.

Chalmers’ comments came two weeks before the federal Budget, and months short of the 80th anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference.

Killings in 2022-23 increased by 4%; disturbingly, the number of women killed by an intimate partner in that same period increased by 28%.

Public sector salary data is now plugged directly into electronic payrolls.