Shane Wright

July 9, 2026 — 7:45pm Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned the renewed escalation of the US's war against Iran would hit economic growth and

Deep cuts in tobacco excise would be unlikely to stop the illicit tobacco trade, the nation's tobacco tsar has warned, with evidence that everything

The government is under pressure to deal with the illegal cigarette trade by slashing excise. But the nation’s illicit tobacco commissioner says that may not be the answer.

July 12, 2026 — 2:00pm Pauline Hanson has, for decades, railed against the nation's - and the world's - elites.

By saying the RBA should tell the government what it should be doing, the One Nation treasury spokesman effectively out-sources economic policy to unelected boffins.

The May budget will improve the nation’s finances over the coming decade. But surpluses will be built on the back of working Australians.

Australians will pay an extra $336 billion in personal income tax by the middle of next decade even after the Albanese government's latest round