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Michelle Grattan discusses the upcoming budget with Chris Richardson
This year’s federal budget should include an aged-care trifecta: expansion in home care, greater transparency, and a rescue package.
As the federal government finalises next week’s budget, with large red numbers into the future, Morrison, Frydenberg and Hunt applied the blow torch to the premier.
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Professor Paddy Nixon
The IMF loan does not impose any conditions over and above what is in South African law on how the funds can be used; it only seems to expect the country to implement policies already announced.
A look at the week in politics, focussing on what Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has described as “without doubt, the biggest shock this country has ever faced”.
He is trying to transition out of stage one while drawing up stage three.
National Treasury is incapable of coming up with the sweeping governmental, social and economic changes required to dig South Africa out of its economic hole.
The budget is one of the key tools that government has to effect meaningful change.
The provincial government has funding to support non-police safety and well-being initiatives — but 99 per cent of it just supplements police budgets.
Decisions about the spending of enormous amounts are about to be made quickly. Here are eight rules to determine value for money.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s economic update to parliament will provide estimates for the road back from the economic downturn of the coronavirus
With the coronavirus curve now flattened, Scott Morrison is now hunting for steroids to drive up the curve of Australia’s national productivity.
The federal budget will be delayed until October 6, as the demands of dealing with the rapidly moving pandemic and the impossibility of forecasting have made the May timetable impossible.
Cash payments are much more likely to be spent than bonus tax refunds.
A major concern is that the government’s resolve is strongest on policies that are actually quite suspect.
Single parents and unmarried parents who live together spend less on their children than married parents.
While the US has the most powerful military machine in history, it is also incomparably the most expensive – and members of Congress work aggressively to maintain it.
Some areas of concern remain. These include the mobilisation of local resources, reduction of the fiscal deficit and stabilisation of the national debt.
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