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The Premier must be quite shocked and disappointed at her Treasury’s nefarious bookkeeping.

Advertisement Only seven months after unveiling his last budget, deferred because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Josh Frydenberg stood up again this week to deliver the 2021-22 budget papers. The Treasurer announced $74.6 billion in new spending and tax breaks over five years. The spending splurge included plans to create more than 250,000 jobs and boost social services ranging from aged care to mental health. Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg at Parliament House after unveiling the 2021-22 federal budget. Credit:Getty Ross Gittins’ budget-night column, In the piece...

Advertisement There are few more earnest debates in politics than that of the future of the Labor Party, Rob Harris says. The modern Labor Party that Anthony Albanese leads has a broad church of supporters. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen "In the past few months there have been no fewer than three books, full of visions and tales of where the party went wrong," The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald's national affairs editor says. In his essay for The Write Stuff: Voices of Unity on Labor's Future, frontbencher Chris Bowen warned his party will lose the next election if it attempts to "boil the oc...