Australians will get one-off cash handouts and tax breaks and pay less for fuel under a raft of pre-election sweeteners announced in the federal budget.
The ACT will receive $51 million for infrastructure in this week’s Federal Budget to be invested in projects that are designed to create jobs, keep commuters and freight safe and moving, and drive economic growth.
A stronger-than-expected economy, a falling unemployment rate to historic lows and a commodity price boom as the result of the Russia-Ukraine war have the revenue dollars rolling in for Josh Frydenberg's fourth budget.
A light economic data calendar will switch the focus to the March 29 federal budget, which is being put together at a time of heated inflation pressures, notably at the petrol pump.
With the Federal Government this week expanding support for apprentices, Master Builders ACT is calling for increased local funding for apprenticeships ahead of the 2021-22 ACT Budget being delivered next week.
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The 2021-22 budget includes funding for 15 hours per week of free preschool education for all children in the year before school, but the details are hazy argues Associate Professor Lennie Barblett of Edith Cowan University.
