"Budget 2015" news, interviews, and features

News about Budget 2015

• Budget 2015: Channel players welcome "stimulus" budget

  "We would certainly like to see an uplift in hardware sales and the like, but you just can’t predict it," Dicker Data CEO, David Dicker

• Budget 2015: Opinion - Nothing ventured, nothing gained

  This was a safe, vote-grabbing budget, and not a lot more

• Budget 2015: Small business wins big in second Hockey budget

  "Now is the time for all Australians to get out there and have a go."

• Budget 2015: Government unlocks funding for research infrastructure

  $300 million to fund NCRIS until June 2017

• Budget 2015: Gap in govt funding for data retention criticised

  Shortfall in funding will be passed on to consumers, Internet Society warns

• Treasurer, Joe Hockey, foreshadows "Netflix tax" in 2015 budget

  Tax will provide a level playing field for Australian digital merchants