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Australian budget 2024

Latest news, updates, opinion and analysis about the 2024 Australia federal budget

  • Chart showing the difference between year-to-date net overseas migration (NOM) and the pre-Covid average of NOM (223,000)

    The Crunch
    Migration has been blamed for the housing crisis, but it’s not that simple

    Cutting permanent migration and capping student numbers won’t help much – but experts say it could hurt a whole lot
  • Peter Dutton and Sarah Henderson in Melbourne on Tuesday.

    Australia news live
    Dutton won’t rule out a Coalition government quitting ICC – as it happened

    This blog is now closed.
  • Peter Dutton during his budget reply speech in the House of Representatives

    Full Story
    Peter Dutton’s populist migration policy – Full Story podcast

  • Pro-Palestine student demonstrators at La Trobe University

    Australia news live
    La Trobe University students end pro-Palestine camp – as it happened

  • A residential electricity bill

    Guardian Essential poll: $300 energy rebate shouldn’t go to high-income households, voters say

  • Anthony Albanese

    Australia news live
    PM says Dutton yet to detail ‘a single costed policy’ in three budget replies – as it happened

  • Paul Karp

    The Agenda
    Going nuclear on power and wages may not be the election winner Peter Dutton thinks it is

    Paul Karp
  • Prime minister Anthony Albanese at the Victorian Labor state conference

    Australia news live
    Budget replies reveal Coalition ‘all over the shop’, PM says, labelling Dutton’s nuclear policy ‘shocking’ – as it happened

  • Karen Middleton, Political editor

    Labor’s budget lays out the battlelines but Dutton pushes hot-button alternatives

    Karen Middleton, Political editor
    Opposition leader shows the Coalition will be ready to fight on familiar ground even if Jim Chalmers thinks his measures will set the agenda
  • Passengers arriving at Brisbane airport. A ballot system has been introduced for countries where demand outstrips allocation of working visas for Australia.

    Australian government launches working holiday visa lottery for some applicants

    Ballot aims to make system more equitable for those from China, India and Vietnam while also tightening temporary migration
    • Jim Chalmers labels Peter Dutton’s budget reply an ‘unhinged’ and ‘nasty’ rant

    • Chronic underfunding of women’s health had led to Hunger Games competition. This must end

      Isabelle Oderberg
    • The weekly beast
      Who’s out of touch? The tabloid obsession over what the treasurer’s ‘missus’ wore on budget night

      Amanda Meade
  • Hand reaching for bottles of medicine on a shelf

    Labor spending millions more on urgent care clinics without evidence they work, experts say

  • Anthony Albanese, Jim Chalmers and Chris Bowen

    Labor to run $45m taxpayer-funded Future Made In Australia advertising campaign

  • Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton delivers his budget in reply speech

    Peter Dutton promises to slash permanent migration by 25% in short term in populist budget reply

  • Dutton offered bipartisanship on cost of living measures but cuts to the Future Made in Australia plan

    Peter Dutton delivers budget reply speech – video

  • Patrick McGorry urges government to move faster on mental health after federal budget boost

  • Hydrogen, solar and batteries – did the 2024 federal budget deliver on clean economy investment?

    Tennant Reed
  • Fellas, if you want there to be more babies, be a dad. A dad in the home

    Van Badham
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