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Here’s how the Turnbull/Morrison government performed on hospitals, primary care, pharmaceuticals and private health insurance.
The Coalition’s infrastructure budgets over this term of government have been around the midpoint of government investment over the past decade. But how projects are chosen leaves a lot to be desired.
Should the Coalition’s $300 billion of tax cuts ever be enacted, they would push the budget back towards deficit.
If you’ve got money and are in your mid-60s you’ll be able to funnel more into super without even working under a budget plan that makes a mockery of super.
Despite boasts of ‘record’ infrastructure spending, relative to GDP it’s comparable to previous budgets. What’s different is that Treasurer Frydenberg has chanced his arm more over the longer term.
The government has delivered a pretty disappointing budget for education, with no secure funding for early childhood education and a recycled commitment of $300 for schools.
The budget includes a step towards modernising Medicare, through a new annual payment for each person with diabetes who signs up with a specific GP.
The promised surpluses won’t last unless we stop giving older Australians more and more and asking them to pay less and less.
Unlike health care for the rest of our body, dental care mostly comes out of our own pocket – and it’s not cheap. Many Australians go without and their health suffers.
The major parties are promising projects costing tens of billions of dollars, with a surprisingly large overlap between them. Yet only two have been endorsed by infrastructure authorities.
Schools funding doesn’t pass the playground test of fairness: state schools get less government funding than governments themselves say the schools need.
Subsidies for private health insurance premiums cost the government over A$6 billion a year. Is it time to scrap the rebate and redirect these funds elsewhere in the health system?
Labor’s proposed amendments to the Coalition’s Protecting Your Super Bill would have cost young Australians $400 million a year.
Corrupt politicians and public servants will be under the spotlight of the new federal corruption watchdog. But if its proposed powers are any clue, it will have neither bark nor bite. Here’s why.
Today the Commonwealth has released data on political donations. It shows high levels of donations from the gambling industry to political parties.
Evidence shows improving teacher selection will improve student results.
Summer is here and the chance of blackouts is higher than normal. But the cause is unlikely to be the power station. The problem is usually much closer to home – in the local poles and wires.
At least in the short term, employment opportunities for graduates seem to be increasing.
Increases in super contributions come out of our own pockets. In the past Shorten and Keating have conceded this.
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Deputy Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Associate researcher, Grattan Institute
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Associate Disability Program, Grattan Institute
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Senior Associate, Health Program, Grattan Institute, Grattan Institute
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Deputy Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Deputy Program Director, Budgets and Government, Grattan Institute
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Disability Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Deputy Program Director, Migration and Labour Markets, Grattan Institute
