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Kevin Rudd has called an election for September 7, with Labor and the Coalition entering the campaign close in two party terms and the next five weeks likely to be decisive for the outcome. Rudd went to…
Kevin Rudd has raised new uncertainty over the election timetable by saying his intention is to be in St Petersburg for the G20 and declaring that he has not settled on an election date. The PM had been…
The government has done its best to make a bad economic situation as politically salvageable as possible. It had to bring down today’s statement, because the worsening numbers would have come out early…
A slowing economy and drop in government revenue has led to an increased budget deficit, new taxes and some cuts to existing programs. Delivering the Rudd government’s long awaited economic statement…
The deficit will blow out to $30 billion this financial year and Australia will remain in the red for 12 months longer than the budget promised, after a $33 billion write-down in revenue. Growth has been…
Tony Abbott has moved to neutralise school funding as an election issue by promising to match “dollar for dollar” the money that Labor has promised over the next four years. Making his dramatic announcement…
With the polls so close, could the unthinkable happen? Might we see another hung parliament? On the balance of probabilities, surely not. But just consider, hypothetically, what it would be like if, say…
The government will introduce a scheme to insure deposits in Australian banks, which will raise $733 million over four years to help the embattled budget bottom line. If passed on in full to deposit customers…
With the election imminent, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has a nifty new (free) app, based on census data, to tell you all you need to know about your electorate, and every other one in the country…
The government is already making a virtue out of one of the “hits” that will raise billions in its economic statement. And it’s got a good case. Tobacco excise will go up. Of course the government would…
When it comes to parties’ asylum policies, it’s the Greens versus the majors. As the boat flow has increased and the government and Coalition have sought to outdo each other in their responses, the Greens…
actually excited for jury duty tomorrow…it’s gonna be fun to tell the defendant they’re GUILTY :P - Facebook post, 2010 Guilty guilty…I will not be swayed. Practicing [sic] for jury duty. - Twitter post…
The Business Council of Australia has urged a higher, broader GST and an effort to boost the participation of women in the labour force, in an economic action plan released today. It says there should…
One would never have thought it could reach this stage, but Australia’s debate about asylum seekers is now worse than in 2001. As Labor and Coalition try to out-tough each other, the boat arrivals are…
The government’s decision to send all boat arrivals to Papua New Guinea means – unless it grants exemptions - a significant shift in policy on children under seven, who until now have not been sent due…
After passing up an August 31 election, for which things could not be completed in time, Kevin Rudd is under pressure from the political hardheads to go to the polls on September 7, on the back of the…
As opposition and government argue shrilly over the calling - or non-calling - of the election, Kevin Rudd has ticked another box and ministers are preparing to discuss the economic statement expected…
The letter that Opposition leader Tony Abbott and education spokesman Christopher Pyne have sent to principals shifts their schools policy for next year but leaves open what schools would be getting after…
The prospect of a surplus has long disappeared into the distant future but it continues to be a political corset. The government is facing what seems a enormous challenge in its economic statement next…
Now Kevin Rudd has ticked off emissions trading and unveiled his PNG solution on boat arrivals, he’s turning his full attention to trying to neutralise the “debt and deficit” issue. In other words, he’s…