You’re the last to turn off the lights at work. You spend your evenings putting your children to bed before catching up on a stack of assessments that are due tomorrow. You’ve lost count of the times you’ve cancelled a family picnic, drinks with friends, or a gym session, because your life has become an […]
With only hours to go before Nicole Kidman takes to the red carpet for the world premiere of her film Grace of Monaco the actress says she never set out to upset Princess Grace's children.
Treasurer Joe Hockey announced the cuts and introduced taxes in one of the most feared budget speeches in decades. Mothers will feel the weight of these announcements, as they, along with the entire nation, will be charged $7 as a Medicare co-payment each time they and their children visit the doctor from July 2015. School […]
Tonight treasurer Joe Hockey stood in federal parliament and handed down the Abbott Government’s first budget. Wearing a blue tie, Hockey delivered a tough budget with “heavy lifting” measures that he says will reduce the national deficit to $10.6 billion by 2016-17. However, political pundits are already anticipating that these deep cuts will savagely impact […]
More specifically, is the budget as painful as we were led to believe? And has the government broken any election promises? PAIN FOR WHOM? It was tipped to be the toughest budget since 1996, and news.com.au has bought into the narrative, leading the site with ‘The Hockey Horror Show: It’s time to Budget for pain’. […]