In it’s first inclusion in the Open Budget Index of 115 countries, Australia ranks 12th.
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Seven charts on the highlights from the government’s mid year update of the budget.
The government hasn’t abandoned its jobs and growth mantra in the budget update and remains optimistic despite lower growth and wages forecasts.
Unless the government is willing to increase taxes elsewhere to pay for tax cuts there will be longer-term costs for the budget and the economy. And younger Australians will wear these costs.
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
The government should add a ‘super payment option’ that allows graduates to offset the cost of their HELP repayments.
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
The 2017 budget contains initiatives that help alleviate some of the worst aspects of its predecessors. However, it doesn’t radically turn things around for women.
The government’s best ideas for how to grow wages and incomes do not inspire confidence.
A combination of incompetence and expediency has let down the country in the task of fixing up the budget.
Students on ‘enabling’ courses may now have to pay substantial fees under higher education reforms.
The S&P Global report cites the potential for low wage growth and low inflation as a ‘downside risk’ for the projections on getting to budget balance.
The proposal to drug test welfare recipients needs to be fine-tuned otherwise the government will be targetting the wrong people and be tied up in legal challenges.
The government’s proposed drug test trial shows how data profiling and surveillance targets the poor.
The fund is nothing more than a rebadging exercise in the hope people might think it is a new policy. And it’s being used to airbrush public hospitals out of the Medicare picture.
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
Labor needs to convincingly discredit the 2017 budget to the point that the government cannot use it to help restore its standing in the eyes of voters.
The budget is pushing for a much-needed reboot of the social housing sector. What it isn’t offering is extra funding to renew and expand run-down housing stocks.
As the government sought to fireproof itself in Labor’s areas of strength, the budget produced a new challenge for Bill Shorten.
The government is reinforcing the dichotomy between “them” and “us” with this budget’s welfare changes, but it lacks solid evidence of effectiveness.
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Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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