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

Labor’s efforts to cut NDIS spending in next month’s budget, with officials asking the health minister, [Mark Butler](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/mark-butler), to explain planned savings before a major speech this week. It comes

Labor’s NDIS overhaul faces delay as Coalition and Greens consider teaming up to slow bill’s passage

delaying Labor’s hopes of passing those bills before the end of June. While the Greens are inclined toward supporting the changes to negative gearing, capital gains tax and family trusts, and voted

Labor dropped their long-awaited gambling report on budget day. Were they betting no one would notice?

Labor government decided to release its contentious, much-delayed response to Peta Murphy’s report on gambling on one of the biggest political news days of the year. They dropped it while the nation

Labor to tighten child NDIS eligibility to curb spending as Queensland MP warns change is ‘failing kids’

cuts ahead of the public announcement – not ministers responsible for implementing changes. Butler said he intended to work with the states to change eligibility rules, to bring the NDIS back to its original goal

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

News Australia email](https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&CMP=emailbutton) “Around the Australian community there is an appetite for a government which is prepared to take on some difficult things. It has become increasingly clear to us, for example

At least 160,000 people to be removed from NDIS as Labor unveils ‘unavoidable and urgent’ cuts

cuts At least 160,000 people are expected to be removed from the National Disability Insurance Scheme by 2030, as the Albanese government looks to claw back savings by changing who can access the scheme

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

News Australia email](https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&CMP=emailbutton) One Nation has recently been polling a close second, behind Labor, in published opinion polls, nabbing up to 25% of the primary vote. In Farrer, the One Nation