Douglas Hilton, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
The federal government has announced a $20 billion medical research future fund, which is expected to distribute $1 billion to research by 2022-23, doubling its direct medical research funding. The announcement…
Now that the government has deregulated student fees and opened up private institutions to Commonwealth funding, what will higher education look like in five years?
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Education Minister Christopher Pyne flew several kites in the months and weeks leading up to the budget. Tuesday night’s budget cut their strings. Just where the kites will fly and whether they will come…
Successive governments of both sides have failed to answer the fundamental questions of what it is that government should actually do and how it should go about doing it.
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Treasurer Joe Hockey’s first federal budget set out a vision of a smaller, less intrusive role for government. The sentiment can hardly be a surprise; prime minister Tony Abbott has long championed the…
Infrastructure Australia does not rate even one of the budget’s newly funded projects as ‘ready to proceed’ or ‘on the threshold’.
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Treasurer Joe Hockey’s first budget creates a clear path almost to a surplus. Our children will pay much less for current spending. Real political courage was required to get this far. But the budget also…
Treasurer Joe Hockey’s first budget is a clear-headed and deliberate essay in creating a new sort of Australia.
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In 2012, then-opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey gave a speech in which he declared that the age of entitlement had to end. But he did not deliver it to a domestic audience. Instead, he went to the…
The economy will react slowly to last night’s budget.
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The Abbott-Hockey government is continuing to budget for a deficit. This means it is pumping more spending into the economy than it is taking out. The amount of this stimulus is being reduced; the size…
Equity isn’t just a nice idea, it’s also how we create a better society.
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Despite government claims that the budget would be fair and all Australians would contribute to the “budget rescue job”, reality has not supported these claims. And this is bad news for health and social…
The budget has revealed students will have to pay more for their degrees, what does this mean for the higher education sector?
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The message for universities from this budget is, “Fend for yourself.” Over the three years from 2015, $1.1 billion will be withdrawn from higher education by decreasing the Commonwealth’s contribution…
New South Wales Premier Mike Baird and Treasurer Andrew Constance are concerned about federal funding for hospitals and schools.
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The Liberal states of New South Wales and Victoria have sharply criticised the federal budget’s cost shifting on health and education, while the medical lobby has slated its $7 co-payment for visits to…
The budget is out – so what does it mean?
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Even before the announcement of the 2014 budget by Australian Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey tonight, there were “budget bad news” leaks flying around in the media. So what do we know now? The as-yet-unspecified…
Treasurer Joe Hockey hands down his first budget.
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Professorial Fellow at the University of Canberra, Michelle Grattan discusses 2014-15 Federal Budget with former economics editor of The Age, Tim Colebatch. Listen the podcast here.
The National Museum of Australia is one of several organisations whose back-room operations will be merged.
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After a sustained period of slimming down under the previous Labor government it looks like the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) has still not achieved its target weight. Even before…
Budget results are in: universities will be able to charge students whatever they want from 2016.
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The government has unveiled a higher education deregulation agenda in Tuesday’s budget, including continuation of the demand driven system in public universities. In a major shake-up, universities, TAFEs…
The Abbott government has committed an additional A$11.6 billion for an “infrastructure growth package” that is heavy on roads, but aimed at fast-tracking what it considers critical infrastructure. The…
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Since publication this infographic has been amended. The original version stated the NDIS was scaled back. There are no planned cuts to the funding of the NDIS.
The budget has introduced a $7 co-payment for visits to the general practitioners.
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The Abbott government has announced a A$20 billion medical research “future fund”, to help discover what Treasurer Joe Hockey calls the “cures of the future”, paid for with money generated as a result…
The Abbott government’s first budget is politically extremely radical but copybook cautious in its economics. A few hours before its delivery, Tony Abbott told the Coalition party room the budget reflected…
Treasurer Joe Hockey and finance minister Mathias Cormann face a difficult sell for the Abbott government’s tough first budget.
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The Abbott government is hoping an A$11.6 billion infrastructure spending package, combined with a $20 billion medical research fund, will help soften the blow of widespread tightening of health and welfare…
Some pain, but the nation will benefit: Hockey’s first budget.
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The Abbott government has laid out its path to reach a budget surplus near the end of the decade in the face of continued below-trend growth. Stopping short of making deep cuts in the coming years, Treasurer…
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne