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Labor running ‘protection racket’ for Qantas by blocking extra Qatar airways flights, opposition claims

Peter Dutton tells Today show the price of flights is ‘astronomical’ and competition with Qantas would bring downward pressure on prices

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Labor’s hypocritical response to the climate crisis is a sad joke on us all

The government’s 2023 intergenerational report warns of economic headwinds due to climate change. Will it do anything about it? Unlikely.

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Grattan on Friday: the Albanese government has questions to answer on competition

The Albanese government this week announced a review of competition policy. At the same time, it is not able to convincingly explain its decision to refuse Qatar Airways’ bid to expand its flights to Australia.

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Australia’s growth to slow as workforce participation falls over coming decades

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the government remains optimistic about the future despite big challenges detailed in latest intergenerational report

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A very different country: 2060s Australia as seen by the Intergenerational Report

The Australia of the 2060s will be very different from the one we know today. It will be older, with slower economic growth, a big “care” economy, and an export sector that is radically transformed due to the imperatives of climate change.

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Journalists play the fool in the ‘economic reform’ theatre of the absurd

Journos seemingly can’t remember that a couple of years ago they paraded the business lobby’s same economic reform lies.

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Climate change a recipe for disaster

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Australia is a ‘global leader’ in dealing with climate change despite its cost to the country put at $423 billion over 40 years, and in 2019 then-government services minister Stuart Robert paid $191 million for a welfare payment calculator that could calculate only one type of…

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Treasurer releases intergenerational report – as it happened

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If you are really worried about the next generation, the only thing that matters is climate change

The only thing the current generation absolutely needs to do for the next generation is stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible

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Massive economic pain for Australia if temperature rises exceed 2C, intergenerational report predicts

Report says hundreds of billions of dollars and millions of work hours in productivity are at risk due to hotter conditions

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Cost-of-living crisis: Albanese government launches taskforce to review competition in bid to ease pressures

Panel’s appointment comes as Woolworths reports rise in net annual earnings to $1.6bn, a day after Coles posts $1.1bn profit

The Guardian - AU

Australia to spend less on age pension despite doubling of retirees, intergenerational report shows

Australia on track for pension payments to shrink from 2.3% of GDP to 2% by 2062-63 as superannuation balances balloon

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Age pension cost to ease by 2060s but super tax breaks to swell: Intergenerational report

Australia’s comprehensive superannuation system means spending on the age pension will decline as a proportion of GDP by 2062-63 despite a doubling of Australians aged 65 and over, according to the government’s Intergenerational Report to be released on Thursday.

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New water plan announced – as it happened

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Intergenerational report to warn of slow growth and pressures on revenue

New extracts released ahead of the government’s Intergenerational Report show it warns Australia’s economy will grow more slowly in the coming 40 years than in previous decades.

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The intergenerational report will prepare us for 2063 – but what exactly is it?

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is preparing to release the Treasury’s sixth Intergenerational Report on Thursday.

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Senator responds to report – as it happened

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Global warming threatens Australia’s triple-A credit rating

As the world heats in the next seven years Australia’s triple-A credit rating will cool, and a judge has ruled a father cannot see two of his three sons for four months after ‘confusing’ them over their gender identity.

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'Care' economy to balloon in an Australia of 40.5 million: Intergenerational Report

Australia’s care economy could increase from its present about 8% of GDP to about 15% in 40 years, according to the government’s Intergenerational Report, to be released by Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Thursday.

The Guardian - AU

Last decade saw Australia’s lowest productivity growth in 60 years, intergenerational report says

Labor to lay out new economic growth plans in response including focus on digital technologies and aiming to become a ‘renewable energy super power’

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Intergenerational report reveals spending in key areas to blow out to half Australian budget by 2063

Health, aged care, NDIS, defence and interest payments will grow from one-third of government spending over next four decades

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Grattan on Friday: Albanese is determined to keep Labor’s eyes firmly focused on a second term

Labor is less than halfway into its first term, but Anthony Albanese is focused, laser-like, on its second one. Securing it, that is.

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What does well-being actually look like in multicultural Australia?

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ ‘Measuring What Matters’ report broke new ground in approaches to Australians’ happiness. But it must go further.

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Opposition refers minister to Ibac – as it happened

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National cabinet push for 12-month limit on rent hikes and ban on no-fault evictions

Anthony Albanese says movement on renters’ rights is needed but has rejected the Greens’ calls for a rent cap

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