The Coalition might have insisted Labor’s financial crisis spending was unnecessary, but the Abbott government declined to rush back to surplus when it was elected, given the weak state of the ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Tuesday will deliver a budget forecasting a decade of deficits and said the timing of the next surplus “remains to be seen”. Jim Chalmers will hand down his fourth ...

BRASILIA, March 20 (Reuters) - Brazil's Congress approved on Thursday a 2025 budget bill that foresees a primary surplus of 15 billion reais ($2.66 billion) for the central government this year ...