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Australia budget 2025: the seven graphs you need to see | Greg Jericho

These are pure Labor tax cuts โ€“ just what the ALP should be all about โ€“ but why are we still letting gas companies get off scot-free?Live updates: Australia federal budget 2025 latest news and reactionExplore all of our 2025 Australia federal budget coverageEarly budgets before an election are often troubling affairs. The government usually doesnโ€™t want to give away its entire election strategy.In the past such budgets...

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Albanese government bids for votes with โ€˜top-upโ€™ tax cuts for all

Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced surprise tax cuts while talking about โ€œstorm cloudsโ€ gathering in the global economy.

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

At a glance: the 2025 federal budget

Hereโ€™s what you need to know about the big spends in Laborโ€™s last budget before the election.

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

A โ€˜modestโ€™ tax bribe, delivered against dark clouds of Trump-induced uncertainty

US President Donald Trump isnโ€™t mentioned by name. But he is the colossus in the background of this budget.

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

The 2025 budget has few savings and surprises but it also ignores climate change

The Budget Paper 2 book, which contains new measures, is a slim document.

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Tax cuts are coming, but not soon, in a cautious budget

An average worker will get $268 but not until mid-2026.

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Why is the US group chat on Houthi attack plans so concerning? A military operations expert explains

Top US officials discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels on an unclassified platform with a journalist. Here are 3 questions answered by a former ADF operations specialist.

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

A budget splash to conserve 30% of Australiaโ€™s lands will save species โ€“ if we choose the right 30%

Protecting 30% of Australian lands sounds good โ€“ but what matters much more is whether weโ€™re protecting dwindling habitat for endangered species.

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Brisbane 2032 Olympics: David Crisafulli announces new stadium, breaking election promise โ€“ video

Queensland premier David Crisafulli has announced a new $3.8b, 63,000 seat venue at Brisbaneโ€™s Victoria Park as part of plans for a main stadium and other venues for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. According to the plan, the Gabba is slated for demolition, to be replaced by residential development. A long-planned Brisbane Live Arena wonโ€™t receive $2.5bn in commonwealth taxpayer funding, instead the private...

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Technology has shaped human knowledge for centuries. Generative AI is set to transform it yet again

From clay tablets to electronic tablets, technology has played an influential role in shaping human knowledge for centuries.

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Wage theft is now a criminal offence in NZ โ€“ investigating it shouldnโ€™t be left to the police

Australia has adopted a tougher, more targeted approach than New Zealand to investigating wage theft by employers โ€“ and it doesnโ€™t involve the police.

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

The ICC showed its might by arresting Rodrigo Duterte. Its reputation will take longer to fix

The ICC is often criticised for being ineffective when it doesnโ€™t act, and biased when it does.

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Why does my kid eat so well at childcare but not at home?

Some kids live a โ€˜double lifeโ€™ when it comes to eating habits. But there are six ways to bring childcare eating habits home.

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Nerve-wracking twists, remarkable stardom and jet-black comedy: the 5 best films of the 2025 French Film Festival

These five captivating films offer a snapshot of the very best of contemporary French cinema

Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Lawmakers worldwide want to talk to the Meta insider whose memoir is a US bestseller โ€“ after Zuckerberg took her to court

Meta has issued a court order to stop former senior employee Sarah Wynn-Williams from discussing her memoir โ€“ despite its new commitment to โ€˜free expressionโ€™.

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Whatโ€™s the difference between freckles, sunspots and moles?

A big freckle or a sunspot? A flat mole or a dark freckle? Hereโ€™s how to tell the difference between the three โ€“and when to get a spot checked for skin cancer.

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far

A staggering rise in the prevalence of many medical conditions and the cultural attention we pay them is the subject of a new book, The Age of Diagnosis.

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Will $1 on your ticket help save Australian live music? A UK model is much more ambitious

The newly launched Australian Music Venue Foundation is partly modelled on the United Kingdomโ€™s Music Venue Trust, but the UK model has a more radical approach.

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Plants breathe with millions of tiny mouths. We used lasers to understand how this skill evolved

Plants shape Earthโ€™s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it โ€“ and how it may change in future climates.

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Breast cancer screening is ripe for change. We need to assess a womanโ€™s risk โ€“ not just her age

A fundamental shake-up of how we screen women for breast cancer could save more lives from the disease. Here are some options of how this could look.

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Academic publishing is a multibillion-dollar industry. Itโ€™s not always good for science

Some academic publishers have been accused by scientists of being โ€œtoo greedyโ€ and prioritising profit over research integrity.

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Trump silences the Voice of America: end of a propaganda machine or void for China and Russia to fill?

By defunding the Voice of America and other state-funded US media outlets, Donald Trump risks opening the airwaves to the more overt propaganda of rival countries.

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

4 key changes you may have missed in the new school funding agreement

In some good news for Australian students, there is now a firm plan to โ€˜fully fundโ€™ public schools by 2034.

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Federal budget 2025: hereโ€™s what we know so far

In an election year, federal budgets are rarely huge surprises. Hereโ€™s a list of funding announcements the government has already made.

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Synchronised bleaching: Ningaloo and the Great Barrier Reef are bleaching in unison for the first time

A marine heatwave has hit Ningaloo Reef hard โ€“and the northern Great Barrier Reef is now bleaching too.

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches

A harmful algal bloom of Karenia mikimotoi made dozens of surfers sick and killed seadragons, fish and octopuses on two South Australian beaches.

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Monique Ryan's husband confronted after removing Liberal campaign sign from Melbourne yard โ€“ video

The video, supplied to Guardian Australia by Coalition sources, shows independent MP Monique Ryan's husband, Peter Jordan, walking down the street with the large sign. When the person filming the video asks why he took it down, Jordan replies, โ€˜Because itโ€™s on public landโ€™, and declines to give his identity when asked. Continue reading...

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Albanese announces federal government has reached agreement to fully fund public schools โ€“ video

Australia's prime minister Anthony Albanese says his government has now reached a school funding agreement with all states and territories, with Queensland the last state to sign on. 'What the agreements between the commonwealth and our eight state and territory governments have delivered is that every student, regardless of which school they go to, will receive this funding,' the prime minister saysโ€˜Apoplecticโ€™...

Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

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Published on: June 24, 2011 | Source: RNZ (Radio New Zealand) favicon RNZ (Radio New Zealand)