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Coalition announces budget surplus and $553m spending on aged care

Treasurer to forecast a surplus by 2020 ‘without increasing taxes and while providing essential services’

Published: 16 Dec 2018

Reef foundation chair tells senators he had no idea Turnbull was going to offer $444m

John Schubert appears before Senate inquiry into the grant awarded to his small non-profit without tender

Published: 18 Sep 2018

Great Barrier Reef grant risked delaying action, government was warned

Published: 17 Aug 2018

Tax cuts to help women on lower incomes but 'taper effect' will trim gains

Rise in effective marginal tax rate will serve as a dampener for increased workforce participation, study says

Published: 3:00 PM

The weekly beast Royal outrage as conservative chorus rounds on ABC

Amanda Meade

Wedding coverage and executive bonuses spark new round of Aunty bashing. Plus Daily Telegraph gets it monumentally wrong

Published: 8:35 PM

Published: 8:35 PM
Only the support of the people can save the ABC now

Emma Dawson

Commercial media organisations are baying for the ABC’s blood, and the government is more than happy to help

Published: 2:48 AM

Published: 2:48 AM

Grogonomics Have you heard the one about the treasurer predicting wage growth?

Greg Jericho

Wages growth data released on Wednesday is not good news for workers – or for the projected budget surplus

Published: 2:00 PM

Published: 2:00 PM
Wages growth stuck at 2.1%, putting Coalition forecast in doubt

Shadow treasurer says budget forecast of 2.25% growth in 2017-18 is ‘problematic’

Published: 12:48 AM

hlcarpenter.com essential report Economic management v fairness: this is the choice voters face

Peter Lewis

The polls are not showing a verdict on the budget but competing propositions, waiting to take root

Published: 10:43 PM

Published: 10:43 PM
hlcarpenter.com essential report hlcarpenter.com Essential report, 15 May results

A summary of the results of polling on Australian politics and national opinion

Published: 9:38 PM
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Budget wage growth forecast is 'heroic', says chair of business group

Elizabeth Proust, chair of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, says it's hard to see how Treasury has come up with such optimistic wage growth forecasts.

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Published: 8:40 PM
Genomics and nanotechnology to benefit from $393m research funding boost

Government allocates new funding after recommendations from chief scientist Alan Finkel

Published: 6:30 PM

- Q&A recap: budget wage growth forecast is 'heroic', business group says
  
  Published: 6:05 PM
- hlcarpenter.com essential report Voters prefer 2018 budget to last year's but Labor still ahead – Guardian Essential poll
  
  Published: 2:00 PM

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