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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.
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.
We are all still learning the rules of the “secularly stagnant” global economy.
The success of the government’s new youth employment plan will depend on how its used by services, employers and young people alike.
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.
For many, innovation is perceived as a precursor to more unwelcome changes at work and potentially to job losses, but innovation is about more than increasing corporate profits.
Sleep is at a premium in Canberra this week. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann is one of those doing the post-budget heavy lifting.
We have to look very hard to find the “ideas boom” in this budget.
Budget repair was put off till later, and the net impact of decisions in the budget was small, but it will be easier to defend in the coming election campaign than some other recent efforts.
Loading companies with excessive, tax deductible debt is a commonly used by multinationals to avoid tax - so why has the government ignored it?
Yet another budget making claims of a gradual decline in government debt. But the credit rating agencies want us to keep these promises - or else.
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Wins for small business; significant superannuation reform; multinational tax avoidance addressed; and more.
From the Parliament House lockup, Grattan Institute CEO John Daley joins Michelle Grattan to give an overall picture of the government’s pre-election budget.
What a paradox! This is an election-eve budget without big sweeteners to woo the voters.
The budget is riddled with shabby timing tricks masquerading as good economic policy.
All you need to know about the Federal Budget 2016.
Next year, let’s ask for three budgets.
Ballooning borrowing to invest in the housing market is impeding investment in the real economy, holding back investment in skills and jobs, and driving up inequality.
The impending election will mean a lot of spin and little substance from both sides of government in this year’s federal budget.
How Australia spends its money, and how this compares to other OECD countries.
The message Chinese investors are getting from Australia is shifting from ambiguous to ominously hostile.