It's federal budget day and while all the details will emerge this evening, there's one group of people who already know they will feel the pinch. Smokers face a 12.5 per cent annual increase in the tobacco excise over four years, with Treasury documents estimating it will raise $28 billion over the next decade
Foreign Correspondent has revealed the Air Asia plane that crashed into the Java Sea in 2014, killing everyone on board, had carried thousands of Australian passengers in the year leading up to the crash. It has prompted calls for the Indonesian arms of the airline to be suspended from flying to Australia
Leicester City has this morning won their first English Premier League title after Chelsea held Tottenham Hotspur to a 2-2 draw. It's a fairytale ending for a club that started the season at odds of 5,000-1 to win the title and a budget just a fraction the size of most other EPL clubs
Astronomers have discovered three planets orbiting the habitable zone of an ultra-cool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth. The researchers say the planets are currently the best places to look for life outside our solar system
Here's what's coming up:
7:40am AEST: ACTU president Ged Kearney will speak to Radio National from Parliament House
9:30am AEST: The Australian Conservation Foundation will hold a press conference before their case challenging the approval of Adani's Carmichael mine is heard in the Federal Court
10:00am AEST: A Queensland Supreme Court judge is due to hand down their decision on whether 'postcard bandit' Brenden Abbott should be extradited to Western Australia
10:15am AEST: SA Premier Jay Weatherill and Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis will visit Whyalla to meet with the administrator of Arrium, as well as unions and workers
7:30pm AEST: Treasurer Scott Morrison will deliver his budget speech
10:00pm AEST: Annabel Crabb will host a live Q&A on her Facebook page
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison will tonight hand down a budget that will help to define this year's lengthy election campaign and include the Opposition's proposed cigarette excise.
An Indonesia AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea in 2014, killing all on board, carried thousands of Australian passengers with a mechanical fault for 12 months before the tragedy.
A 21-year-old Somali refugee is being treated at the Nauru Hospital after setting herself alight on Nauru in what is the second attempted self-immolation in a week.
Australian tech entrepreneur Craig Wright, long-suspected of having created cryptocurrency Bitcoin, confirms his identity to three publications, ending years of speculation.
An increasingly confident Donald Trump is seeking to trounce rival Ted Cruz in Indiana and stake his claim to the Republican US presidential nomination, as the billionaire trains his sights on presumptive Democratic standard-bearer Hillary Clinton.
Three planets discovered orbiting the habitable zone of an ultra-cool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth offer the best place to search for life outside our solar system, astronomers say.
The former director of the NSW Department of Public Prosecutions says there is 'clear evidence' the Catholic Church covered up the crimes of a paedophile priest.
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