Government responds to gambling report

The Federal Government is allocating more than $7 million to roll-out more diphtheria vaccines as the outbreak worsens in the Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia.

The Federal Government is preparing a support package to help states and territories manage Australia's biggest outbreak of diphtheria in decades.

The Prime Minister and the Treasurer have spent the day defending the decision to overhaul the country's capital gains tax system.

The Federal Government is fending off claims by the Opposition that it is effectively introducing a "death tax" through its newly-announced changes to a tax on trusts.

The Federal Government is listing one of the nation's neo-Nazi organisations as a prohibited hate group.

The Federal Opposition Leader Angus Taylor will deliver his budget reply speech this evening, including a plan to restrict welfare services and the National Disability Insurance Scheme to Australian citizens.

The federal government's planned changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount are prompting fierce debate after being unveiled in the Budget.

Plans to reform the tax system have been revealed in this year's federal budget.

The Albanese government has released its long-awaited response to a landmark gambling report which called for a complete ban on online gambling advertisements.

Liberal MPs have spent the day talking down the idea the party will be forced to form a coalition with One Nation to have any chance of forming government again.