Anthony Galloway

Labor has revealed its plan to force tech giants to provide funding for Australia's news industry. While the big media companies are upbeat, many questions remain.

There is a reason why the two big policies coming out of Canberra this week are a world away from Australians' central concern about the cost of living.

Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones took meetings with several media executives in the months before taking media reforms to the Labor cabinet, but did not meet with two of the platforms captured by its new tech levy.

The treasurer delivered his most widely supported economic announcement of the year on Monday. This success, though, is likely to be short-lived.

Frontier Economics' Danny Price has defended his work and lashed the government for claiming there would be more economic growth in a renewables-dominated future.

Frontier Economics' Danny Price has defended his work and lashed the government for claiming there would be more economic growth in a renewables-dominated future.

The long-awaited review into Commonwealth-funded national security research divides think tanks into those receiving core operational funding and those receiving project grants.

There was little good news in today's mid-year budget update, and little explanation from the government on how it plans to pay for many of the cost pressures on the bottom line.

There's concern in the renewable energy sector that the Coalition's nuclear policy could send investors overseas, and some fear decisions are already starting to be delayed until after federal election.

With Anthony Albanese repeatedly failing to rise to the moment, Peter Dutton now finds himself under the weight of big expectations internally.