To get to stage C of the plan out of COVID, 80% of adults over 16 need to be vaccinated. But that equates to just under 65% of all Australians – too low to safely open international borders.
- Associate, Grattan Institute
Victoria has had the guts to raise new taxes, support the economy and shrink the deficit.
There’s much more new spending on aged care than there is on infrastructure. That’s a change.
Other parents have got back the hours they lost. Not single parents. Many were forced to leave jobs to care for children.
A good political donation disclosure system would close the loopholes that allow major donors to hide, while protecting the privacy of small donors.
Victoria’s lockdown has been hard, but it now occupies a rare and envious position. As Victorians await new freedoms on the next step towards COVID-normal, they should feel a sense of accomplishment.
Women in particular seem to have been relegated in the 2020 budget to an afterthought.
Borrowing to reduce unemployment and increase growth will pay for itself.
Our states have much more capacity than they are using.
The federal opposition’s idea for a bullet train from Melbourne to Brisbane is not a good use of a generation’s worth of infrastructure spending. It won’t even work as an economic stimulus.
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