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Despite concerns over transparency, Brisbane City Council has approved a behind-the-scenes transfer of a lease of the former Stafford Bowls Club from Crushers Leagues Club to Brisbane Racing Club.

Housing took centre stage in Treasurer Jim Chalmers’s first budget this week. Relatively modest but positive steps were made towards tackling Australia’s worsening shortage of affordable social housing, as well as the broader challenge of housing affordability. But parts of the package cast some doubt on the new government’s analysis…

Advocates express deep unease about lack of action for people on income support and repeat calls to lift jobseeker rate to $73 a day

Women are central to economic prosperity. This federal budget offers a paradigm shift on gender inequality

The shadow treasurer rejected the concept of the structural deficit at the heart of the budget and said the economy could be grown faster.

The sobriety of Budget 2022 reveals much about the political evolution of Anthony Albanese, Matthew Franklin writes.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers unveiled the government’s plan to accelerate the construction of new housing across the country.

The Labor federal government promised it would make women central to its first budget.

Financial commitments in the federal budget show the government is serious about Indigenous issues, a law academic who helped design the Uluru Statement says.