Canberra Daily's April 2022 highlights include the federal election campaign, an exclusive interview with Ukrainian Ambassador to Australia Vasyl Myroshnychenko, Australia's first kava lounge, and more.
Australians will get one-off cash handouts and tax breaks and pay less for fuel under a raft of pre-election sweeteners announced in the federal budget.
A stronger-than-expected economy, a falling unemployment rate to historic lows and a commodity price boom as the result of the Russia-Ukraine war have the revenue dollars rolling in for Josh Frydenberg's fourth budget.
Federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg has described Victoria's current COVID-19 lockdown rules allowing for entry from NSW but enforcing confinement in Melbourne as "ludicrous and unacceptable".
