Chris Bowen’s budget response set the framework for this campaign - now for the detail.
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We count unemployment and economic indicators in the budget, so why not environmental ones?
FactCheck unpacks claims that Labor has a $19.5 billion black hole in its economic plan.
The government made many sensible changes to superannuation tax breaks in the budget. But the move to more flexible annual caps on pre-tax contributions is not one of them.
Reform remains a challenge when every idea to reduce the deficit, reduce government expenditure or restructure taxes tends to get shot down in Australia.
The onus is now on students, universities and the wider public to make clear where they stand on the options laid out in the discussion paper.
Lots of changes affect investments made in the past, and no-one suggests they are retrospective.
The government’s economic narrative began to emerge more clearly this week when it handed down its first budget.
Open government and public data could contribute up to A$16 billion per annum to the Australian economy.
In response to the government's pre-election budget, Labor's Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh, a former professor of economics, describes an alternative economic plan.
Ever since Malcolm Turnbull declared he’d call an election for July 2 if the Senate defied him, we’ve been counting down towards Sunday’s formal announcement of the start of a marathon campaign.
In his budget reply, Bill Shorten avoided the government’s traps and wisely stressed his party’s traditional strengths: health, education and social policy.
The budget seems to be saying to people with taxable incomes of less than $80,000 – if you want to pay less tax, get yourself a negatively-geared property investment.
An ideological view and a powerful lobby group stopped the government from delivering a better budget.
Bill Shorten has claimed savings of $71 billion over ten years – most of it from rejecting almost all the budget’s company tax cut.
On the cusp of calling the election, Malcolm Turnbull sat down with Michelle Grattan to talk about the budget.
The success of the government’s new youth employment plan will depend on how its used by services, employers and young people alike.
We all know about the ‘jobs and growth’, but there was also ‘tax’ and various forms of ‘new’ – read innovation – in this year’s federal budget.
Just what does the government think you will do with the changes to tax, extra money or cuts in the federal budget?
Budget superannuation changes redirect concessions to lower income earners where they are most needed.
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