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Former Nationals party leader says he doesn’t court the media or ‘shout from the rooftops’ about wins, in live Q&A with Guardian Australia

<strong>Exclusive:</strong> Report says majority of funds ‘allocated to where the National party vote is highest’

Australia has faced a series of defining challenges over the past three years. Fires, floods, a pandemic, a global recession, a mouse plague, a war in Europe, economic coercion from China. They’ve all been hard on our families, on our businesses, on our jobs, on our farmers, on our children. But set against those difficulties Australia, and Australians, have shown what we can

Former judge Anthony Whealy says size of funding promises justifies keeping body to scrutinise water projects

Look beyond the fanfare about large infrastructure projects like Hells Gate and what we are left with is a largely business-as-usual budget for regional Australia

The government’s commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 has come at a big cost, with billions going to regional Australia to keep the Nationals on side.

Exclusive: Letter from member to colleagues questioned whether government’s funding promises on dams made for ‘political purposes’, after body not consulted

This year is the 50th anniversary of the opening of Snowy Mountains Scheme – SMS - with similarities to the SHB, not least in the development of construction techniques, the rise in technological sophistication (‘Snowcom’ – our first main frame computer) and the immigrant workers who were the basis of modern multiculturalism. Some 42 nations were represented amongst the 100,000 workers during its construction.

The federal Budget will have something for everyone because the cost of living is surging, an election is due in weeks, and the government is behind in polls.  

Australians earning less than $126,000 will from July 1 get an existing tax offset of up to $1,080 plus a bonus $420 to help manage the rising cost of living in a $4.1billion policy.