Treasurer Joe Hockey claims within six years Australia will have "the biggest medical research endowment fund in the world".

This week’s budget raises the question of whom the Liberal Party now represents WE LEARN a lot from a new government’s first budget. Strategic priorities, previously existing only in verbal form, are given concrete expression; promises are sorted into the various categories of core, non-core and empty; scores are settled and favours repaid. But the...

The National Commission of Audit chairman Tony Shepherd claims that on average, Australians visit a doctor more than 11 times a year when they don't need to, and that a $15 co-payment for each visit would give them "cause for thought."

Prime Minister Tony Abbott claims only 2 per cent of incomes over $100,000 are earned by women under 50. The actual figure is considerably higher.

Attorney-General George Brandis claims people have a right to be bigots and to say things that other people find offensive.