Joe Hockey has set aside austerity to deliver a budget that spends almost every dollar it saved last year.

In a sign of the increasing concern in China about corporate debt levels, the Chinese central bank has cut interest rates for the third time in six months.

Official statistics released last Friday pointed to another big drop in the US rate of unemployment.

The meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank chiefs wrapped up in Cairns over the weekend, with finance leaders saying they remained committed to boosting global growth by close to two per cent by 2018.

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Iraq, the US, Russia and Ukraine - Sheryle Bagwell explains the morning's foreign news.

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The super guarantee levy will be frozen at 9.5 per cent for seven years, according to a deal struck between the Abbott Government and Clive Palmer yesterday in return for the abolition of the mining tax.

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