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Liberals vow tax cut fight at 'every step'

Despite the Prime Minister's assertions the government has not changed its position on tax cuts, the Deputy Liberal Leader says Australians can't be confident.

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Labor's Stage 3 tax cut kite-fly pits budget economics against election promises

Doing the sums on Coalition tax cuts

Newcastle Herald

Wedged between the CPAC circus and the teals, will Peter Dutton wither or find a new way to live?

Could the Liberal party be co-opted by the rightwing fringe? It is structurally and institutionally weak after the May election loss

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Michael Pascoe: Morrison heeded the Tooth Fairy when Treasury warned against tax cuts

In 2018, when Scott Morrison announced his tax-cut package, Treasury laid out in black and white the grounds for scrapping Stage Three

The New Daily

Anthony Albanese leaves open possibility of changes to stage-three tax cuts

Prime minister says government ‘hasn’t changed our position’ but does not rule out doing so in future

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton says Labor’s renewable energy overhaul plan ‘never going to be realised’

Opposition leader tells Andrew Bolt Australia needs to consider nuclear reactors and calls on Tim Flannery to apologise

The Guardian - AU

One Nation's Mark Latham said just 0.17 per cent of Australians are transgender. Here's what we found.

The One Nation MP used the latest census data to claim transgender people are over-represented in public debate. But a lack of "meaningful data" means the size of Australia's transgender population remains unknown.

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Flood warnings for eastern states as Melbourne receives half a month’s rainfall in one hour – as it happened

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Morning mail: Zelenskiy appeals to Australia, 37 dead in Thailand attack, Annie Ernaux’s Nobel win

Friday: Ukraine’s president has urged world leaders not to give in to Russia’s ‘nuclear blackmail’. Plus: should Labor scrap the stage-three tax cuts?

The Guardian - AU

Team successes help Hunter sports kick on

Newcastle Herald readers have their say

Newcastle Herald

Legal opinions split on whether Andrew Thorburn could argue discrimination over Essendon resignation

One lawyer says the matter contrasts with Israel Folau’s sacking, as views weren’t actually expressed

The Guardian - AU

Health system dire under Vic Labor: AMA

The Australian Medical Association has taken the Victorian Labor government to task over the state's "dire" health crisis in its election statement.

AAP

Grattan on Friday: Jim Chalmers plays the tease as he pushes to change Stage 3 tax cuts

When Scott Morrison was treasurer he flew the kite for an increase in the GST. The debate ran a while, before then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull shut it down. It was all too hard.

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Victim tells NT Supreme Court of impact of ex-Labor staffer Kent Rowe's rapes

Prosecutors say former Territory Labor secretary and senior staffer Kent Rowe should serve significant jail time over the rapes.

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Tas govt 'confident' of AFL club support

Tasmania's minister for sport Nic Street expects AFL club presidents to provide the league with a very positive view of the island state's bid for a licence.

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Labor attacked by former RBA governor Bernie Fraser for sticking to ‘dodgy’ stage-three tax cuts

Fraser says Albanese government should repeal stage three as the tax cuts are ‘even more unfair’ due to falling real wages

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IBAC should explain hearings: Vic inquiry

A Victorian parliamentary inquiry says the state's corruption watchdog should be required to set out its reasons for public hearings.

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Tax cut needed to ease mortgage pain: Libs

Tax cuts due to come into effect from mid-2024 have become a flashpoint for the upcoming budget as Australia faces economic headwinds.

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Albanese meets Solomons PM – as it happened

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Morning mail: skills shortages soar, oil production cuts agreed, complaints over ‘off-meter’ taxis

Thursday: The number of occupations experiencing a skills shortage in Australia has almost doubled. Plus: Alec Baldwin settles prop gun death lawsuit

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Liberal moderate Bridget Archer says Labor right to be questioning stage-three tax cuts

Archer tells Albanese government ‘it’s OK to change your mind’ as debate continues within ALP about future of Coalition tax package

The New Daily

Stage-three tax cuts: What makes them so controversial?

Stage three tax cuts will kick in during 2024 and on net it will benefit people who earn over $180,000, or the top 3.7 per cent.

The Conversation

Labor's plan to save threatened species is an improvement – but it's still well short of what we need

Australia’s dire and shameful conservation record is well established. The world’s highest number of recent mammal extinctions – 39 since colonisation. Ecosystems collapsing from the north to the south, across our lands and waters. Even species that have survived so far are at risk, as the sad list of threatened…

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‘Differences of opinion’ within Labor over stage-three tax cuts amid worsening economic outlook

Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones says government ‘not walking away’ from previous policy but framing budget in ‘difficult’ circumstances

AAP

Economy woes cloud tax cut ahead of budget

Pressure is mounting to change or scrap costly tax cuts baked in by the former government as Labor prepares to hand down its budget in less than three weeks.

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