Buried in the Australian budget papers are a multitude of decisions that don’t make the headlines. Here are a few of this year’s
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The federal budget allocates billions of dollars towards fuel resilience, tax cuts, hospital funding and aged care, as well as major measures to reform negative gearing, capital gains tax and family trusts.
It also makes room to fund electronic screens at sporting grounds, set new standards for ebikes, impose tax exemptions for the incoming Papua New Guinean team in the National Rugby League and abolish tariffs on air conditioners, margarine and bitumen.
Continue reading...This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Josh Butler and Dan Jervis-Bardy.
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