Politics

Roger Cook has warned that the States will not bear all the costs of federal cuts to the NDIS as Health Minister Mark Butler eyes tighter regulation and a reset of eligibility to rein in the runaway program.

The NDIS was meant to be based on free market principles and the individual. But its ballooning costs are now requiring major Federal Government intervention.

Party faithful have been closely tracking the rise of the charismatic South Australian MP Mark Butler as they quietly contemplate Labor after Albo.

More uncounted ballots have been found weeks after South Australians went to the polls, prompting calls for an independent review of the election.

AMP chief economist Shane Oliver has urged Treasurer Jim Chalmers to cut $100 billion from the Federal Budget to help fight inflation.

AARON PATRICK: A government fund set up to invest in promising companies is being used to deliver corporate welfare.

The tax burden on Australians is at the highest level in almost two decades, new government data shows, with a former Reserve Bank official warning it is likely to get even worse.

The Trump administration is cosying up to new tech which is shaking up the traditional military industrial complex.

Australia risks being exploited by the ‘predatory’ behaviour of international superpowers as the world order is eroded, a damning new human rights report has found.

FBI director Kash Patel has responded to a US magazine article alleging he had a drinking problem with a defamation lawsuit.

Talks between Israel and Lebanon will resume in Washington DC, US and Israeli officials say.

Australia’s economy is being held hostage to ‘decisions taken in Washington and Tehran’, Jim Chalmers has lamented as he flagged the Budget’s major savings will be found in the NDIS.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says any plan to dilute the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount will be about addressing intergenerational unfairness in housing.

Conflicts in Ukraine and Iran show why we should focus on on drones and other automated technologies, not lumbering subs and warships.