Anthony Albanese has created a $7 billion hole in Labor’s Budget after overturning, via text message to a journalist, a budgeted reduction in Australia’s refugee and humanitarian intake from 20,000 to 13,750 places a year. New Parliamentary Budget Office analysis obtained by the Coalition confirms Labor’s May Budget was already built on the refugee and Read More >
Under Labor, the number of Australians working more than one job has passed one million for the first time on record, and it is women and young Australians who are having to work the hardest. 1,049,100 Australians worked more than one job in the June quarter 2026 and the multiple job-holding rate has climbed to Read More >
The Albanese Government has serious questions to answer about how seriously it is taking cleaning up corruption and criminal activity in the construction industry. Reporting in The Age reveals the AFP declined a formal request from Victoria Police to investigate alleged cross-border corruption, while industry insiders seeking to report suspected payments to the underworld say they were Read More >
It is hard to believe that today is the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. It is hard to fathom that an entire generation of young Australians have reached adulthood who were not born on 9/11. And yet, they have grown up in a post 9/11 world – a darker world. My four children Read More >
The Coalition will oppose Labor’s exposure draft of the Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026 in its current form. Australians want their children protected online and the world’s biggest technology companies held to account. But protecting children cannot become an excuse to hand politicians sweeping powers over lawful speech, news, political debate Read More >
Thank you very much for that, Innes. That was a lovely welcome, and thank you also to the Australian Industry Group for hosting this conference. Before I start, I should make particular mention of the previous lead speaker, Michele O’Neil. I was going to say really nice things, and she’s already ducked out the door. Read More >
“More tax landmines keep emerging from Jim Chalmers’ budget, now covering the full circle of life from cradle to grave because the Albanese government can’t kick its spending addiction”, said Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson. Mr Wilson’s comments come in the wake of reports in The Australian today that Jim Chalmers’ Budget contains a birth tax Read More >
Labor is now openly divided over Australia’s failed tobacco excise regime, with NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns calling for the tobacco tax to be cut while Anthony Albanese continues to stick his head in the sand. Speaking on Sky News this morning, Premier Minns said the current tax settings were not working and were helping Read More >
Anthony Albanese today refused to answer direct questions about the organised crime gangs profiting from Australia’s booming illicit tobacco market and refused to rule out reducing tobacco excise. In Question Time, the Prime Minister was twice asked directly about the impact of organised crime and more than 200 tobacco-related arson attacks in Victoria in three Read More >
The Coalition will introduce new federal laws to defend the Australian flag, protect Australia Day, and crack down on people who vandalise the memorials that honour our history and those who served our country. In the last fortnight, a war memorial in the small western Victorian community of Dobie was badly vandalised. A commemorative plaque Read More >
“The job of the Treasurer is to build a stronger Australian economy, yet Treasurer Jim Chalmers is talking down the economy, stoking inflation and dancing on falling property prices that is destroying the wages and wealth of Australians”, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson. Mr Wilson’s comments follow the Treasurer welcoming bank forecasts of significant declines Read More >
Ladies and gentlemen: Our country and way of life is changing in a worrying and unpleasant way. In the last four years, there have been almost daily reminders of a country beset by troubles. Home invasions. Knife attacks. Shopping centre brawls. Shops ram-raided. Businesses torched. Synagogues firebombed. Gangland shootings. Corruption in the building sector. In Read More >
Small and family businesses have spent the last four months seeking legal, financial and valuation advice and told their restructure costs could be $50,000, all because our taxaholic Treasurer can’t keep his hand out of the small business till and kick his spending and inflation addiction. The Albanese government’s Budget has been filled with tax Read More >
Australia’s tobacco wars have become a national organised crime crisis. Today, the Coalition launches a major law and order policy to crush the organised crime gangs that are making billions from illegal cigarettes and vapes. Our plan will stop the firebombings, extortion, and violence on Australian streets which is helping to fund drug trafficking, scams, Read More >
“Jim Chalmers has conceded his Budget is destroying the wealth and wages of Australian families, while Australians are living the consequences of his active inflation agenda”, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson. Mr Wilson’s comments come in the wake of the Treasurer’s first admissions since his Budget that his measures have contributed to the significant decline Read More >
The Albanese government’s active inflation agenda continues to put the brakes on the Australian economy, as they stoke inflation, tax inflation and spend inflation in a vicious cycle that is sending Australians backwards. The latest National Accounts for the June 2026 quarter show that income tax paid is up 39% since Labor came to power, Read More >
“Senior former public servants and the financial sector are directly rejecting the Treasurer’s snaky assumptions in his broken Budget that pushed debt over $1 trillion and is increasing interest rates and supermarket prices”, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson. Mr Wilson’s comments follow reports that former Treasury and Prime Minister’s Department Secretary, Phil Gaetjens, has directly Read More >
“Small business is collapsing and home values are falling because the Albanese government can’t kick its spending addiction to fuel its active inflation agenda”, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson. Mr Wilson’s comments come in the wake of new data from Cotality showing a collapse in house prices across the country, and AIG analysis that shows Read More >
“The Albanese active inflation agenda is making small business unsustainable and unviable with profitability falling backwards 15 per cent in real terms”, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson, today. Mr Wilson’s comments follow the release of ABS business data showing that, adjusted for inflation, small business profits are down 15 per cent since the June quarter Read More >
“The Albanese government’s spending addiction to feed their active inflation agenda has led the National Australia Bank to forecast interest rate hikes in September, exactly when households and small business can least afford higher interest rates and supermarket prices”, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson. Mr Wilson’s comments come as the National Australia Bank forecasts the Read More >