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Michelle Grattan, Peter Martin and Tim Colebatch on the election-eve budget chock full of sweeteners
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Fresh from the budget lockup, chief political correspondent Michelle Grattan talks with Business and Economics Editor Peter Martin and political and economic journalist Tim Colebatch.
All you need to know about the 2019-20 federal budget in our simple at-a-glance graphic.
The government wants this election to be all about tax. The tax cuts you will get, now and later. And the “higher taxes” that Bill Shorten would impose.
Peter Costello’s Future Fund is funding the apparent elimination of government debt.
The budget – the first brought down by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg – doubles the tax relief that average earners were due to receive within weeks, from $530 in last year’s budget to $1,080.
It’s a cash splash worthy of Rudd, and it will push an extra $3.5 billion into the economy within weeks.
Booming global commodity prices have masked the impacts of a weakening economy. With luck, the budget will be the shot it needs.
Extreme events, from floods to droughts to polluted drinking water threatens Canadians’ safety.
Critics complain that government debt saddles future generations with a financial burden. The critics are wrong.
A co-founder of Idle No More was put on trial for ‘trespassing’ on her family’s ancestral lands. Canada has much to learn about institutionalizing respectful relationships with Indigenous peoples.
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