Duncan Storrar is the man of the moment.
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Chris Bowen’s budget response set the framework for this campaign - now for the detail.
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We count unemployment and economic indicators in the budget, so why not environmental ones?
Both the Coalition and the ALP have committed to raising tobacco excise by 12.5% a year for four years, starting on September 1, 2017.
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FactCheck unpacks claims that Labor has a $19.5 billion black hole in its economic plan.
Super changes designed to help women catch up are more likely to help high-income earning men.
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The government made many sensible changes to superannuation tax breaks in the budget. But the move to more flexible annual caps on pre-tax contributions is not one of them.
Fixing the structural deficit could be too big a task for the Turnbull government given the reluctance to tackle any meaningful tax and spending reform.
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Reform remains a challenge when every idea to reduce the deficit, reduce government expenditure or restructure taxes tends to get shot down in Australia.
The government’s options for higher education reform come with significant trade offs.
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The onus is now on students, universities and the wider public to make clear where they stand on the options laid out in the discussion paper.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten says the government’s proposed changes to super are ‘retrospective’, but actually they’re not.
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Lots of changes affect investments made in the past, and no-one suggests they are retrospective.
The government’s economic narrative began to emerge more clearly this week when it handed down its first budget.
The Australian Taxation Office has already started down the path of publishing information on tax paid by Australian companies.
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Open government and public data could contribute up to A$16 billion per annum to the Australian economy.
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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.
Malcolm Turnbull will be satisfied with the reaction to the budget but less so with his own performance.
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Ever since Malcolm Turnbull declared he’d call an election for July 2 if the Senate defied him, we’ve been counting down towards Sunday’s formal announcement of the start of a marathon campaign.
Bill Shorten is not a natural orator, but was passionate and persuasive in the more sober parts of his speech.
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In his budget reply, Bill Shorten avoided the government’s traps and wisely stressed his party’s traditional strengths: health, education and social policy.
Government policy signals are encouraging more Australians to borrow more money for property.
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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.
Not just another budget, but not a plan either.
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An ideological view and a powerful lobby group stopped the government from delivering a better budget.
Bill Shorten said the budget had tax cuts for high-income earners but nothing for families and ‘not one cent for ordinary Australians’.
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Bill Shorten has claimed savings of $71 billion over ten years – most of it from rejecting almost all the budget’s company tax cut.
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On the cusp of calling the election, Malcolm Turnbull sat down with Michelle Grattan to talk about the budget.
The government’s new plan to help young people gain employment won’t work for those who are severely disadvantaged.
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The success of the government’s new youth employment plan will depend on how its used by services, employers and young people alike.
In the past 20 years, budget speeches have been delivered in increasingly less complex language.
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We all know about the ‘jobs and growth’, but there was also ‘tax’ and various forms of ‘new’ – read innovation – in this year’s federal budget.
There are obvious and hidden agendas behind what the budget incentivises.
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Just what does the government think you will do with the changes to tax, extra money or cuts in the federal budget?
The reforms to superannuation in the federal budget reflect how the objective of the system is changing.
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Budget superannuation changes redirect concessions to lower income earners where they are most needed.