The federal government is considering bringing in tough laws to target unfair trading practices in a bid to get the economy growing faster.
Millions of Australians are tardy with their tax returns. An ATO experiment found changing one sentence could prompt people to pay their tax bills.
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie used parliamentary privilege to claim financial records and documents show misuse of church funds.
Competition Minister Andrew Leigh says businesses getting employees to sign away their rights to switch jobs for better pay might be a factor in stifling wages.
Ten companies paid more than $33 billion in corporate income tax in 2020-2021,but more than 30 per cent of the top-earning companies paid none.
Labor MP Andrew Leigh will make a financial case to reduce the country’s growing prison rates,a trend he says has more to do with stricter policing and sentencing than crime.
Andrew Leigh will use a speech to signal new competition reform,canvassing competition payments to the states and an overhaul of occupational licensing.
Only weeks ago,the treasurer insisted this was not the time to discuss the looming stage three tax cuts. Now he’s deliberately letting the talk run.
Assistant Treasury Minister Andrew Leigh says ensuring multinational and large businesses pay their fair share of tax is pivotal to funding services to ordinary voters.
Coins bearing the effigy of King Charles will start entering circulation next year,but Andrew Leigh says swapping the Queen for the King on the $5 note is not a given.
It’s not only the crossbench that will be angered by Labor allowing offshore oil and gas exploration. This announcement will restart the climate wars.