Clare Armstrong

Welcome cost-of-living relief for households is imminent with most economists and all major banks forecasting a rate cut this week, but experts are divided on just how low they will go.

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Anthony Albanese says he will call the federal election “soon”, just hours after his extended tax cuts passed through the Senate with the support of the crossbench.

A highly anticipated interest rate cut will save the average Australian household about $1200 a year off their mortgage repayments, with economists expecting one more before the end of the year.

Labor’s election mastermind is confident ads warning voters Peter Dutton would cut health services to pay for nuclear would “sail through” any truth in political advertising test, despite the Coalition branding the attacks a false “scare campaign”.

Exclusive: Anthony Albanese will put a rocket under the public service to act faster and be “more efficient” in his second term, declaring Labor is in its “era of delivery” on health, education and economic reforms.

EXCLUSIVE: Labor’s election promises are “not the limit of our ambitions” Treasurer Jim Chalmers has declared as he vows to build a mandate for more reforms to turbocharge Australia’s sluggish economy and capture the opportunities of AI.

Major changes coming to aged care home support system

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