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Business Briefing: Zombie measures, crackdowns and Brexit worries
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As the world tries to get a handle on what a Brexit means, D-Day looms for both Labor and the Coalition.
The Coalition says it has costed its additional expenditure and will deliver $2.3 billion in savings, in contrast to Labor.
Has the Coalition invested an average of $5 billion per year more than Labor into Medicare?
How would each of the major parties better regulate the finance and business sectors?
The Coalition has ramped up the race to fund the Great Barrier Reef’s protection. All three major parties have promised hundreds of millions of dollars, but where from, and what will they be spent on?
Labor says that public sector infrastructure investment has fallen 20% under the Abbott-Turnbull government. Is that right?
The Coalition has asked CSIRO to develop a “roadmap” towards commercialised clean energy. It’s a good idea as long as the plan is clear, and there’s enough money behind it.
Both parties are proposing to spend more on education, yet there is no guarantee that either will lift outcomes substantially.
A key question ahead of local government elections in South Africa is whether the African National Congress will retain control of seven of the country’s eight metropolitan municipalities.
Increasing the amount that students pay towards their degree is likely to be on the cards of higher education in this year’s election.
While Labor’s policy proposals for schools are all mapped out, the Coalition has yet to specify its plans for education.
We’re set to hear very little about nature conservation in Australia’s upcoming election campaign. Here’s why that’s a huge oversight.
The Coalition and opposition are tied on 50-50% in the latest Newspoll despite Malcolm Turnbull having an overwhelming 57-19% lead as preferred prime minister.
The former Lib Dem leader remembered as anti-war orator and master communicator with a gift for relating to his audience.
It may all come down to how broadcasters interpret their impartiality requirements.
In 2010, there were more than 1,000 potential coalition options. Here’s how to make friends in 2015.
A coalition would solve Labour’s short-term number problem and could damage Sturgeon’s plans in the long term.
A beginner’s guide to the politics of the UK’s most overlooked parliamentary parties.
With the polls showing the Conservatives and Labour firmly stuck in neck-and-neck position, they are playing on multiple chessboards in a desperate scramble for votes. Their latest move has been to publish…
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