CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 4 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following media release: The Albanese Government is releasing exposure drafts of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Reform No. 3) Bill 2026 and related materials for consultation. This is the next tranche of legislation implementing the reforms to negative gearing and capital gains tax (CGT) announced in the 2026‑27 Budget. These reforms will help level the playing field for first home buyers, preserve the gains investors have...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 4 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following media release: New ASIC numbers show that a new record has been set for the number of new companies registered last month. 44,040 new companies were registered in July, this came after 43,393 were registered in June. Many more businesses are being created on our watch and there is a much smaller proportion of insolvencies than under the Liberals and Nationals. We have a big agenda to boost productivity and investment an...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release: With less than 100 days until the midterm elections and amid ongoing threats from President Trump to nationalize, militarize, and interfere with election administration, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and Mark Warner (D-Va.), Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, led a group of colleagues in pressing the Department of Justic...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff issued the following press release: U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock are demanding answers as the Trump Administration reportedly ends civil rights enforcement within the Department of Education. Sens. Ossoff and Rev. Warnock are demanding answers (https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Final-letter-to-ED-OCR-.pdf) from Education Secretary Linda McMahon after reports (https://www.highereddive.com/news/education-depart...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen issued the following press release: Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) announced that the Trump Administration finally released more than $3.3 million in federal funding for affordable housing across Nevada. This funding comes from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Housing Trust Fund Formula Grant Program Allocation, which provides grants to states to produce and preserve affordable housing for extremely low- and very low-income househo...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen issued the following press release: Today, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) joined a letter led by U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) raising the alarm about offshore prediction markets allowing people to bet on wildfires. As wildfires burn in Nevada (https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/new-pass-fire-becomes-nevadas-largest-of-2026-among-4-active-wildfires-statewide/) a...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 3 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note: Footage and images will be available later today via Hightail. United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General (USG) for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix has today (Monday, 3 August) welcomed 50 Pacific and Timor Lestepolice officers to the AFP's Pinkenba Hub, where they will be trained as mission-ready UN Police Peacekeepers in five weeks. USG Lacroix joined AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett ...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 3 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note: Arrest vision available via Hightail. A Victorian man is scheduled to appear in Broadmeadows Magistrates Court today (3 August, 2026) charged with assaulting a passenger and cabin crew member on an international flight from Phuket to Melbourne. The man, 21, was charged on 1 April, 2026, after the AFP responded to a request for assistance from airline staff. The AFP will allege the man assaul...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 3 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: ACCC oversight over fuel prices, house prices, the 5per cent deposit scheme Sally Sara: Well, to federal politics now, and discounts to the fuel excise and the heavy vehicle road user charge both lapsed today after the federal government decided not to extend them into August. The federal Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has now written to the watchdog, the ACCC, asking it to increase monitoring of fu...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 2 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: This is a joint release between Australian Federal Police and Australian Border Force Editor's note:Images and vision available via Hightail link Six children have been removed from harm in the Philippines and a West Australian man has been sentenced to a maximum of 10 years and six months' imprisonment for online child abuse material offences. The man, 74, was sentenced yesterday (28 July, 2026) in the Pe...