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Fitch gives Labor budget AAA rating

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023
For the first time under a Labor government, Fitch has handed down a AAA rating to the May budget. In a statement, Fitch applauded the government for its spending restraint and said the nation's public finances had outperformed expectations. "The commitment ...

What you need to know about the 2023-24 budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... million small- and medium-sized enterprises save on their energy bills. Women continue to be a focal point in the Labor budget, building on the October 2022 initiatives that tackled economic inequality, such as building 7000 new social and affordable ...

Budget deficit pressured by debt costs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... fairly, and more sustainably. Responding to the Budget measures, abrdn chief economist Jeremy Lawson said: "The first Labor budget in almost a decade was about walking a very narrow tightrope. How to respond to the cost-of-living crisis that heavily ...

Women focus in Labor budget reply

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... productivity in workplaces, delivering a much-needed boost in economic growth of up to $4 billion a year." Additionally, the Labor budget proposed a "mass mobilisation of resources" for job creation, training and skills, lower energy prices, infrastructure ...

Budget for the wealthy: Labor

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... Opposition leader Bill Shorten is rejecting claims Treasurer Scott Morrison's 2017-18 Budget is anything like a 'Labor Budget.' Shorten went on Twitter to say the Coalition's budget is "out of touch", as a Labor Budget wouldn't slash school funding ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... onwards," said the Treasurer. The investment management industry is nonetheless a big winner in the first Rudd-Swan Labor Budget following the announcement of progressive reductions in the level of withholding tax on foreign sourced investments. Given ...
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