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The federal government’s plan to ease the lingering skills shortage also includes expanded visa processing capacities, a brand-new renewable energy apprentice scheme, and measures encouraging pensioners to take on more work.

With a second federal budget on the way, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has a chance to introduce some novel economic fixes.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the expected 10-year cost of the tax reforms has blown out, but said next week's federal budget is not the place to address those concerns.

Australia's peak body for small business groups will not immediately discount an Australian Council of Trade Unions proposal to introduce sector-wide enterprise bargaining.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will tell Parliament that estimated growth has been cut by half a percentage point for last financial year, this financial year and next year.

An unexpected billion-dollar increase to the cost of modernising Australia's business registry system will heap pressure on the new Labor government, Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones says, foreshadowing tough budget cuts in the months to come.

Chalmers says he will deliver a budget in the last week of October, so as to put the Albanese government’s election promises in play and start the cutting back of wasteful expenditure.

It's not a new concept, and some have criticised it as marketing over substance. Will it work in Australia?

Jim Chalmers has spent three days with Treasury secretary Dr Steven Kennedy poring over the so-called ‘red book’ brief to discuss the economic lay of the land.

The Morrison government has promised to make the paid parental leave scheme “fairer” for more Australian families by introducing more flexibility to the system and expanding the eligibility criteria. 

The federal budget is almost upon us once again, and the government has been dropping hints — and full blown statements — about what we can expect to see in the papers.

It’s federal budget season, and the nation’s small businesses are pondering whether there’s any good news on the horizon for what’s shaping up to be another challenging year.