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Australia news live: Pocock buys billboards to pressure Chalmers on gas export tax; survey reveals national gloom

Jim Chalmers**’ Queensland electorate, calling for a 25% tax on gas exports, delivered through changes

Budget 2026 Australia: Jim Chalmers announces capital gains tax and negative gearing reform for housing

Jim Chalmers announces capital gains tax and negative gearing reform for housing Jim Chalmers has announced

Jim Chalmers says budget changes allowing first home buyers to ‘have a crack’

Jim Chalmers says budget changes allowing first home buyers to ‘have a crack’ The treasurer

Jim Chalmers rules out fuel excise extension and downplays hopes for tax relief in ‘most responsible’ budget yet

Jim Chalmers rules out fuel excise extension and downplays hopes for tax relief in ‘most

Jim Chalmers says budget to address economic anxieties ‘driving’ Australians to One Nation

Jim Chalmers says budget to address economic anxieties ‘driving’ Australians to One Nation One Nation

POV: you’re Jim Chalmers using social media to sell the most ambitious budget of your life

Jim Chalmers using social media to sell the most ambitious budget of your life He’s [up before

Jim Chalmers is putting a positive spin on the economy, but is the outlook for Australia grim?

Jim Chalmers is putting a positive spin on the economy, but is the outlook for Australia

Australia news live: Chalmers says budget will pay down more debt; families of Bondi shooting victims to take stand at royal commission

Jim Chalmers** saying his fourth budget will have “more restraint”. The treasurer said: > double quotation

Federal budget 2026 live updates: treasurer Jim Chalmers to present budget speech tonight – latest news

Jim Chalmers to present budget speech tonight – latest news From Australians among the remaining 22 passengers

A Zara dress, the Jim Reaper and a communist state: how Australia’s media interpreted the budget

Jim” Chalmers was cackling like the devil [as he gouged them with big taxes in the federal

From Blair to Burnham, jogging as political metaphor has just run and run

Jim Chalmers and Nicola Willis](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9a1035f8a2ff4567a72a94d4532a60e14d091e41/0_181_1375_899/master/1375.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Friends that run together - work together 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇪🇸 🇳🇿Great

Australia politics live: budget funds to speed up environmental approvals; Coalition deals with Farrer loss

Chalmers talks up faster approvals processes as productivity boost** Ahead of delivering his fifth budget tomorrow night, **Jim

Australia news live: Queensland Labor ahead in Stafford byelection despite large swing

Jim Chalmers**, responding to Taylor’s comments on ABC’s Insiders, said Taylor’s proposed

Australia news live: Ley urges Liberals to accept Farrer loss to One Nation with ‘humility’, saying ‘voters never get it wrong’

Jim Chalmers**, says the Farrer by-election result was a “bloodbath” for the Coalition that

Existing property investors likely to avoid more tax under possible CGT changes in Chalmers’ May budget

Chalmers’ May budget Existing property investors look set to avoid paying more tax under Labor’s mooted [changes to CGT](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/28/cgt-capital-gains-discounts-tax-australia) in next month’s budget, after Jim

States on edge about NDIS cuts as Chalmers flags they will be ‘easily the most important’ part of budget savings

Jim Chalmers, flagged on Monday morning that cuts to the NDIS will be “easily the most

Pressure mounts on Angus Taylor as Pauline Hanson declares One Nation ‘here for the long haul’

Jim Chalmers, said the Farrer result was a “bloodbath” for the Coalition that casts doubt

Limiting capital gains tax changes to new investments would ‘severely delay’ budget reforms, Deloitte says

Jim Chalmers this week warned that mooted changes to investor tax breaks would not generate

Labor extends EV tax break to encourage cheaper vehicles amid soaring fuel prices

Jim Chalmers, and energy minister, Chris Bowen, announced in a joint statement on Monday evening

The ‘Oscars for political nerds’ or a threat to democracy? Grab a ticket, it’s Canberra’s budget fundraiser season

Jim Chalmers breezes into one of the rooms that a fundraiser is being held in, where