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Labor reaches deal with the Greens to pass changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing reforms
By Dan Jervis-Bardy Chief political correspondent
Minor party says it has also negotiated an extension to the inquiry into controversial changes to the NDIS
#Australianpolitics #Nationaldisabilityinsurancescheme #Australianews #Australianbudget2026 #AustralianGreens #Tax #Laborparty #Coalition #Disability #DanJervisBardyChiefpoliticalcorrespondent
Labor reaches deal with the Greens to pass changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing reforms https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/23/labor-greens-deal-capital-gains-tax-negative-gearing-reforms #AustralianPolitics #NationalDisabilityInsuranceScheme #AustraliaNews #AustralianBudget2026 #AustralianGreens
Albanese announces ‘generous’ capital gains tax exemptions for small businesses after budget backlash https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/18/albanese-announces-generous-capital-gains-tax-exemptions-for-small-businesses-after-budget-backlash #AustralianPolitics #Tax #AnthonyAlbanese #AustraliaNews #Business #AustralianBudget2026 #AustralianEconomy #JimChalmers
Australian housing was already cooling before the budget – but how cold it gets depends on two key factors https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/06/australia-housing-house-prices-supply-before-budget-after-cgt-capital-gains-tax-negative-gearing-changes #Housing #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews #AustralianBudget2026 #Tax #InterestRates
Labor’s NDIS overhaul faces delay as Coalition and Greens consider teaming up to slow bill’s passage
By Josh Butler
Government hopes to rush NDIS and tax changes through parliament but opposition and crossbench push for more scrutiny
#AustralianGreens #Laborparty #Australianews #Nationaldisabilityinsurancescheme #Australianbudget2026 #Australianpolitics #Tax #JoshButler
Albanese calls Taylor ‘Temu Abbott’ as bitter fight rages over budget tax changes https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/03/budget-tax-changes-temu-abbot-insult-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-calls-angus-taylor #AustralianPolitics #AnthonyAlbanese #AngusTaylor #AustraliaNews #Tax #JimChalmers #AustralianEconomy #LaborParty #Coalition #AustralianBudget2026
Australians’ pessimism about the future is fuelling support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation | Tony Barry https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/03/pauline-hanson-one-nation-australia-voters-pessimism-ntwnfb #OneNation #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews #LaborParty #AustralianBudget2026
Jim Chalmers says fewer homes selling at auction may be a ‘good thing’ for first-time buyers https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/01/house-prices-auction-jim-chalmers-response-first-home-buyers #JimChalmers #Housing #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #AustralianBudget2026
Yes, young Australians will feel the budget changes more acutely. But the risk is that they don’t go far enough | Intifar Chowdhury https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/29/young-australians-federal-budget-changes-impact #Tax #AustralianBudget2026 #AustraliaNews #AustralianEconomy #PersonalFinance #Housing #PeterCostello #Inequality #Business #WagesGrowth #AustralianPolitics
Australians with disabilities copped the biggest cuts in the budget. Yet conservative media’s heart bleeds for the wealthy | Greg Jericho https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2026/may/28/australia-budget-reactions-ndis-changes-disabilities-biggest-cuts-dental-ignored #AustralianPolitics #LaborParty #AustraliaNews #Coalition #AustralianBudget2026 #Tax #Disability #AustralianMedia #AustralianEconomy
Soft toys, memes and a movie villain: Labor tries to simplify the message but selling a budget isn’t child’s play https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/27/soft-toys-memes-and-a-movie-villain-labor-tries-to-simplify-the-message-but-selling-a-budget-isnt-childs-play #AustralianPolitics #AustralianBudget2026 #AustraliaNews #JimChalmers #LaborParty
News Corp noise and AI memes prove Labor is doing something meaningful. The battle lies in selling it | Peter Lewis
By Peter Lewis
The latest Guardian Essential report shows there is substantial work to do in convincing Australians of the merits of significant housing and tax reform
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News Corp noise and AI memes prove Labor is doing something meaningful. The battle lies in selling it | Peter Lewis https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/may/27/labor-budget-reaction-support-opinion-guardian-essential-poll-news-corp-noise-ai-memes #EssentialPoll #AustraliaNews #LaborParty #AustralianPolitics #AustralianBudget2026 #Tax #Housing #Inequality #Coalition #LiberalParty #Technology #NewsCorporation #AustralianEconomy #Business #Austra...
Jim Chalmers is talkin’ ’bout generations – but is the message resonating with Australians? | Julianne Schultz https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/24/australia-budget-inequality-jim-chalmers-message-australians-left-behind #JimChalmers #AustralianEconomy #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews #Inequality #AustralianBudget2026
Anthony Albanese visibly emotional after defending Labor’s capital gains tax and negative gearing changes
By Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent
Prime minister launches impassioned argument in favour of much-maligned reforms announced in last week’s federal budget
#Australianpolitics #Australianews #AnthonyAlbanese #JimChalmers #Tax #Taxandspending #Australianbudget2026 #Victoria #Laborparty #BenitaKolovosVictorianstatecorrespondent
Labor MPs expect eventual concessions for startups after backlash to CGT changes https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/22/labor-mps-expect-eventual-concessions-for-startups-after-backlash-to-cgt-changes #Tax #LaborParty #Housing #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews #AnthonyAlbanese #JimChalmers #AustralianBudget2026 #Business
MPs urged to ignore fearmongering and pass Labor’s ‘long overdue’ negative gearing and CGT changes https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/22/australia-negative-gearing-capital-gains-tax-housing-community-groups-urge-mps #Housing #ClareOneil #AustralianPolitics #AustralianEconomy #AustralianBudget2026 #AustraliaNews
Death, taxes and scare campaigns: here’s the truth about Labor’s budget changes | Greg Jericho https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2026/may/21/labor-budget-changes-death-taxes-scare-campaigns-truth #AustralianBudget2026 #Tax #AustralianEconomy #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #Housing
The budget was meant to be about fairness. So why are young people still paying $52,000 for a degree? | George Williams https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/20/the-budget-was-meant-to-be-about-fairness-so-why-are-young-people-still-paying-52000-for-a-degree #AustraliaNews #AustralianEducation #AustralianBudget2026 #LaborParty #AustralianPolitics
Australians with Down syndrome among those to suffer most from proposed NDIS cuts government analysis says
By Sarah Basford Canales and Dan Jervis-Bardy
‘It’s heartless to cut supports we need to leave the house, work and study at a time when the cost of living has dramatically increased’, advocate says
#Nationaldisabilityinsurancescheme #Australianews #Disability #Australianbudget2026 #MarkButler #Health #Australianpolitics #SarahBasfordCanales #DanJervisBardy
Australians with Down’s syndrome among those to suffer most from proposed NDIS cuts government analysis says https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/20/australians-with-downs-syndrome-among-those-to-suffer-most-from-proposed-ndis-cuts-government-analysis-says #NationalDisabilityInsuranceScheme #AustraliaNews #Disability #AustralianBudget2026 #MarkButler #Health #AustralianPolitics
‘Death tax’, startups and a rent spike: it’s time to correct misleading claims about Labor’s budget | Saul Eslake https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/may/19/death-tax-startups-and-a-rent-spike-its-time-to-correct-misleading-claims-about-labors-budget #AustralianBudget2026 #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews #LaborParty #AustralianEconomy
Australia’s ‘green Wall Street’ is failing to launch. Threatened species deserve better than the nature repair market | Euan Ritchie and Yung En Chee https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/18/australias-green-wall-street-is-failing-to-launch-threatened-species-deserve-better-than-the-nature-repair-market #Conservation #Environment #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #AustralianBudget2026 #Wildlife #Business #Biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies
Jim Chalmers wants to make Australia more fair – but is it enough to stave off the threat from One Nation? | Zoe Daniel https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/may/17/australia-federal-budget-jim-chalmers-fairness-one-nation-threat-ntwnfb #AustralianBudget2026 #OneNation #FarrerByelection2026 #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #LaborParty #Coalition #AustralianEconomy
‘A watchdog without resources is not a watchdog’: Labor accused of letting key accountability body languish
By Tom McIlroy Political editor
Criticism of budget funding comes amid warnings the Australian National Audit Office will struggle to meet its targets for independent reviews
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‘A watchdog without resources is not a watchdog’: Labor accused of letting key accountability body languish https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/16/australian-national-audit-office-watchdog-cuts-labor-david-pocock #DavidPocock #AustralianBudget2026 #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics
POV: you’re Jim Chalmers using social media to sell the most ambitious budget of your life https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/16/pov-youre-jim-chalmers-using-social-media-to-sell-the-most-ambitious-budget-of-your-life #AustralianBudget2026 #JimChalmers #SocialMedia #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #DigitalMedia
Angus Taylor’s tough talk on migration puts politics over policy and risks feeding damaging stereotypes | Alan Gamlen https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/15/angus-taylor-migration-politics-over-policy-stereotypes #AustralianBudget2026 #Migration #AngusTaylor #Coalition #OneNation #AustralianPolitics #Housing
Labor’s budget will benefit the young – but does little to woo voters drawn to One Nation https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/15/australia-2026-budget-labor-one-nation-voters-ntwnfb #AustralianBudget2026 #AustralianPolitics #Economics #ConsumerAffairs #AustraliaNews #Business #Money #LaborParty #JimChalmers #AnthonyAlbanese
NDIS cuts could leave some participants with a funding gap. How will the changes affect you? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/15/budget-ndis-cuts-funding-gap-changes-strict-criteria #Disability #AustralianPolitics #MarkButler #AustraliaNews #AnthonyAlbanese #LaborParty #Welfare #Health #NationalDisabilityInsuranceScheme #AustralianBudget2026
Labor accused of ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’ for axing $760m research program to fund other science measures https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/14/labor-budget-2026-csiro-funding-science-research-program-axed #AustralianBudget2026 #Science #AustralianUniversities #Research #AustraliaNews #Csiro
Australian workers have been hard done by and tax reforms in the budget only begin to return some fairness | Greg Jericho https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2026/may/14/cgt-capital-gains-tax-australian-workers-hard-done-by-budget-tax-reforms-fairness #AustralianBudget2026 #Housing #AustralianEconomy #AustralianPolitics
Australia politics live: Albanese denies tax reforms aimed at courting votes from growing gen Z cohort
By Nick Visser
Angus Taylor to give budget reply speech tonight. Follow today’s news live
#Australianews #Australianpolitics #Australianeconomy #Business #Health #Australianeducation #Australianimmigrationandasylum #Australianforeignpolicy #AnthonyAlbanese #Australianbudget2026 #Laborparty #Coalition #Tax #OneNation #AustralianGreens #Liberalparty #JimChalmers #NickVisser
Why budget rhetoric won’t match reality for many younger Australians https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/13/why-budget-rhetoric-wont-match-reality-for-many-younger-australians #AustralianBudget2026 #AustraliaNews #Tax
Coalition to link immigration limits to new builds as Taylor says ‘migration has run miles ahead of housing’ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/13/coalition-immigration-policy-housing-budget-reply-angus-taylor #AustralianPolitics #AngusTaylor #LiberalParty #Coalition #AustralianBudget2026 #AustraliaNews #Housing
A Zara dress, the Jim Reaper and a communist state: how Australia’s media interpreted the budget https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/13/australia-federal-budget-2026-in-the-papers-coverage-response #AustralianBudget2026 #AustralianMedia #NewsCorporation #NineNewspapers #AustraliaNews #Media #NineEntertainment #DailyMail #JimChalmers #AustralianPolitics #SkyNewsAustralia
Jim Chalmers’ budget doesn’t fix everything – but it’s an overdue first payment to future generations | Ken Henry https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/may/13/australia-budget-2026-jim-chalmers-economic-reforms-tax-changes-future-generations #AustralianBudget2026 #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #Environment #AustralianEconomy
Labor’s budget resembled a seven-course degustation. It was welcome, but why don’t voters feel sated? | Nicki Hutley https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/may/13/budget-2026-labor-measures-voters #AustralianBudget2026 #AustraliaNews #Housing #AustralianPolitics #LaborParty
Budget earmarks more than $600m for Bondi attack response, with half going to Australia’s Jewish community
By Luca Ittimani
Funds flow to charities and other organisations, with Executive Council of Australian Jewry getting $124m for extra security
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Budget 2026 live updates: Coalition pledges to repeal Chalmers’ tax reforms amid mixed reception for ‘difficult’ budget https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/may/13/budget-2026-live-updates-reaction-jim-chalmers-tim-wilson-cost-of-living-capital-gains-negative-gearing-housing-tax-ntwnfb #AustralianBudget2026 #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #AustralianEconomy #Business #Health #AustralianEducation #AustralianImmigrationAndAsylum #AustralianForeignPolicy
Budget earmarks more than $600m for Bondi attack response, with half going to Australia’s Jewish community https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/13/australia-federal-budget-2026-funding-for-jewish-security-bondi-ntwnfb #AustralianBudget2026 #BondiBeachTerrorAttack #Bondi #RoyalCommissionOnAntisemitismAndSocialCohesion #Race #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics
Aukus costs balloon with more cash and staff for submarine agency amid ongoing search for nuclear waste dump https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/12/australia-federal-budget-2026-aukus-submarines-nuclear-defence-spending #AustralianBudget2026 #Aukus #AustralianPolitics #AustralianMilitary #RoyalAustralianNavy #RichardMarles #AustraliaNews
The budget in seven graphs: no big surprises but this may be one of the most ambitious moves to fix Australia’s finances | Greg Jericho https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/grogonomics/2026/may/12/the-budget-in-seven-graphs-no-big-surprises-but-this-may-be-one-of-the-most-ambitious-moves-to-fix-australias-finances #AustraliaNews #AustralianBudget2026 #AustralianPolitics #Housing #FossilFuels #Gas #Environment #Welfare #NationalDisabilityInsuranceScheme #Tax
Federal budget 2026 summary – winners and losers https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/12/federal-budget-2026-summary-winners-and-losers #AustralianBudget2026 #AustralianEconomy #CostoflivingCrisis #Welfare #Tax #AustraliaNews #Inequality #Housing
Huge cuts to national disability insurance scheme aim to save more than $36bn in budget’s largest single measure https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/12/australia-federal-budget-2026-ndis-savings-cuts-national-disability-insurance-scheme-support-jobs-changes #AustralianBudget2026 #NationalDisabilityInsuranceScheme #AustralianPolitics #Disability #AustraliaNews
Budget 2026 Australia: Jim Chalmers announces capital gains tax and negative gearing reform for housing https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/12/australia-federal-budget-2026-tax-capital-gains-negative-gearing-economy-housing-ndis-cost-of-living-oil-prices #AustralianBudget2026 #AustralianEconomy #AustraliaNews #LaborParty #JimChalmers #AustralianPolitics #Tax #CostoflivingCrisis #Welfare #PetrolPrices #Housing #Inequality #NationalDisabilityInsuranceScheme
Jim Chalmers says budget to address economic anxieties ‘driving’ Australians to One Nation https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/12/budget-2026-jim-chalmers-economic-anxieties-one-nation-australia-ntwnfb #AustralianBudget2026 #AustralianPolitics #LaborParty #OneNation #Housing #AustralianEconomy #AustraliaNews #JimChalmers
Jim Chalmers is not the only Australian on a budget | Fiona Katauskas https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/12/jim-chalmers-is-not-the-only-australian-on-a-budget #AustralianBudget2026 #AustralianEconomy #AustraliaNews #Welfare
Federal budget 2026 live updates: treasurer Jim Chalmers to present budget speech tonight – latest news https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/may/12/budget-2026-live-updates-federal-treasurer-jim-chalmers-speech-time-tonight-latest-news-ntwnfb #AustralianBudget2026 #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #AustralianEconomy #Business #Health #AustralianEducation #AustralianImmigrationAndAsylum #AustralianForeignPolicy
Changing tax rules for investors won’t shrink housing supply or raise rents. Just look at Victoria https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/11/changing-tax-rules-for-investors-wont-shrink-housing-supply-or-raise-rents-just-look-at-victoria #AnthonyAlbanese #AustraliaNews #LaborParty #DanielAndrews #Housing #AustralianPolitics #AustralianBudget2026
Is the Howard era over? Albanese and Chalmers are betting the budget it is | Frank Bongiorno https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/11/budget-2026-australia-labor-albanese-chalmers-howard-era-over #AustralianBudget2026 #JohnHoward #AustraliaNews #LaborParty #AustralianPolitics #Tax #Housing #Coalition #LiberalParty #AustralianEconomy
Australia politics live: budget funds to speed up environmental approvals; Coalition deals with Farrer loss https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/may/11/australia-politics-live-federal-budget-jim-chalmers-cost-of-living-deficit-farrer-byelection-coalition-one-nation-ntwnfb #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #AustralianBudget2026 #AustralianEconomy #LaborParty #OneNation #LiberalParty #Coalition #JimChalmers #Health #Tax #Business #AustralianLaw
David Pocock applauds $387.4m in extra funding for CSIRO after tens of thousands sign petition https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/09/david-pocock-applauds-3874m-in-extra-funding-for-csiro-after-tens-of-thousands-sign-petition #AustralianBudget2026 #Science #AustraliaNews #KatyGallagherAustralianPolitician #AustralianPolitics #Environment
Almost $4bn more for Victoria’s contentious Suburban Rail Loop to be included in federal budget https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/07/federal-budget-melbourne-srl-suburban-rail-loop-funding-transport #SuburbanRailLoop #AnthonyAlbanese #JacintaAllan #VictorianPolitics #AustraliaNews #AustralianBudget2026 #Transport #Melbourne #Victoria
Who’s invited to Canberra’s hottest pre-budget galas? | Fiona Katauskas https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/07/whos-invited-to-canberras-hottest-pre-budget-galas #AustralianBudget2026 #AustralianPolitics #Lobbying
In this budget, all eyes are on CGT. But Labor’s rumoured family trust tweaks might also help fight tax inequality | Greg Jericho https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2026/may/06/in-this-budget-all-eyes-are-on-cgt-but-labors-rumoured-family-trust-tweaks-might-also-help-fight-tax-inequality #AustralianEconomy #Tax #Inequality #AustraliaNews #AustralianBudget2026 #LaborParty #AustralianPolitics
The fuel crisis is about to whack Australia. Jim Chalmers’ budget must tread a fine line between panic and preparation | Peter Lewis https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/apr/29/budget-chalmers-fuel-crisis-fine-line #EssentialPoll #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #AustralianBudget2026 #AustralianEconomy #Housing #Energy #PetrolPrices #NationalDisabilityInsuranceScheme
Capital gains tax changes are on the table, and yet Armageddon has not arrived. Has the tide on housing turned at last? https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2026/apr/23/cgt-capital-gains-tax-negative-gearing-changes-housing-labor-budget-2026 #Housing #Tax #Renting #AustralianEconomy #AustraliaNews #Investing #JohnHoward #AustralianPolitics #AustralianBudget2026