The Government is expected to reveal Treasury modelling today showing a carbon price would have a marginal impact on incomes and the rapidly…
The Government is expected to reveal Treasury modelling today showing a carbon price would have a marginal impact on incomes and the rapidly…
The Federal Coalition has pledged to remove the “unpaid tax collector” status of small firms if it achieves government, in a move that h…
The Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia has welcomed the Coalition’s plans for the Tax Office to process superannuation pay…
The political heat has moved from the Government to the Coalition, with Opposition Leader Tony Abbott brushing off concerns his Communicatio…
Poor Tony Abbott can’t take a trick. If he’s not being forced to watch Malcolm Turnbull criticise his party’s carbon plan, he’s being gently…
Federal opposition leader Tony Abbott has backed away from supporting plain cigarette packaging, saying that that the Government’s proposa…
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan says last week’s budget was not about opinion polls. That’s probably a good thing – the post-budget polls hav…
Finance Minister Penny Wong has dismissed Tony Abbott’s budget reply as uninformative and negative, but a small business lobbyist says the…
The Opposition has defended the lack of detail in its budget response to the Parliament last night, saying the Coalition will deliver more d…
When Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten was addressing some 700 Canberra accountants and other business people at the traditional after budget…
Tony Abbott has vowed to scrap the proposed carbon tax should the Coalition take power at the next election. Business lobby groups have urge…
The Federal Government has announced a special one-year levy to offset the cost of the Queensland floods, in a move that has been attacked b…
