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The treasurer defends cost-of-living relief, disputing inflationary impacts.

Is this the future of Australia? Fat, flaccid, and foolish?

Total interest payments will soar from $22.7 billion in the 2023-24 financial year to $35.6 billion in 2027-28.

The government are undertaking reforms to ’moderate this additional growth‘ and ’return the NDIS to its original intent,’ the budget noted.

A range of green energy initiatives will be funded followed the release of the official budget by Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

The process to map the entire continent will take 35 years.

A boost to aged care workers’ salaries is among the $2.2 billion in announcements made for the sector in the 2024 federal budget.

The opposition, however, argues the budget ‘does nothing to help Australians get ahead and to restore their standard of living.’

This year’s Budget paves the way for an earlier election, should its assumptions prove accurate.

The Labor government is set to spend $215 billion more than it earns over the next five years.

About $6.2 billion will go into the initiative.

‘We are part of a global student movement fighting for the liberation of Palestine,’ the group said.

Qantas will launch direct flights from Brisbane to Manila for the first time in over a decade also increase its flights to Singapore and India.

Demonstrations, marches, arson, a prison kidnapping and confrontations with security forces have spread throughout the French Pacific territory.

Former military lawyer David McBride has been sentenced to five years and eight months for sharing classified documents with journalists.

The scheme has paid out over 6 percent of claims so far and is due to wrap up in September.

The Christchurch Call was set up by Jacinda Ardern and Emmanuel Macron in response to the 2019 mosque mass shooting event.

Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen said that the initiatives are meant to bring energy costs down for Australians.

Being pregnant, ill, young or Aboriginal are among the additional reasons judges in Victoria may be able to delay sentencing offenders to immediate imprisonment

While the figure is well below the $22.1 billion surplus in 2022-23, it marks the first back-to-back surplus in nearly two decades.