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Election looms over Australia's budget Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison's budget on Tuesday will double as an unofficial election campaign launch. Small tax cuts and spending on health, infrastructure and education have already been foreshadowed or announced. The cost of these will likely be offset by closing tax loopholes for multinational companies, ending some pension concessions for the wealthy and hiking tobacco taxes. The opposition says the reforms are too modest and favour the wealthy. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will dissolve parliament and call an early election on or before 11 May. Australia will almost certainly go to the polls on 2 July. Tuesday's budget will form the backbone of the Liberal-led coalition government's pitch to voters for re-election. For a moment on Monday, Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison appeared to forget the date for his own budget, insisting in parliament it was two days away. It's due to be announc...

Australian burns survivor Turia Pitt completes triathlon An Australian runner who suffered life-threatening burns when she was caught in a bushfire during a race has finished a gruelling Ironman triathlon. Turia Pitt received burns to 65% of her body and was told she would never compete again after the 2011 ultra-marathon in the Kimberley region. But on Sunday she completed the 226km (140 mile) Ironman Australia triathlon, making headlines across the country. Ms Pitt told the BBC she never doubted that she would cross the finish line. "I kind of just got in my zone and didn't really think about the big picture, I just broke it down into little chunks, I just thought about getting to the next station," the 28-year-old said of the triathlon, which was held at Port Macquarie, 390km (242 miles) north of Sydney. "I was confident I'd get to the end unless I had really bad luck, like [if] I came off my bike, but those kinds of things aren...