Budget2016/17

Turnbull’s PaTH Internship Program Beginning To Unravel Under Scrutiny

May 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

The PaTH internship program unveiled in Tuesday’s budget is beginning to unravel before it even starts with concerns over work cover and the payment of the participants. [...]

Turnbull’s Business Tax Cuts To Cost Australia Over $48 Billion Over 10 Years

May 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Turnbull Governmnet’s tax cuts for companies will cost the Australian economy just over $48 billion dollars. The Australian Labor Party has said it will oppose the [...]

A Re-Election Of The Abbott/Turnbull Government Will Mean More Pain & Cuts For Australians

May 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

The re-election of the coalition on 2 July will mean more pain for Australians and cuts to services. Those who will feel the pain the most will bill pensioners, families and [...]

Shorten avoids the traps and plays to Labor’s strengths in budget reply

May 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Rob Manwaring, Flinders University There were three competing and conflicting narratives in the Coalition’s budget. First, there was the narrative that Malcolm Turnbull and [...]

Shorten budget reply: Labor finds big dollars by rejecting most of budget’s company tax cut

May 5, 2016 // 3 Comments

Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has claimed savings of $71 billion over ten years – most of it from rejecting almost all the [...]

Shorten: Turnbull’s Budget Is Built On Fraud & Punishes Australians

May 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Bill Shorten has said in his budget reply, which was more like a campaign launch, that Labor offers a bolder, better, more balanced approach to growing the economy & [...]

Federal budget 2016: education experts react

May 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Glenn C. Savage, University of Melbourne; Conor King, La Trobe University; John Fischetti, University of Newcastle; Megan O’Connell, Victoria University, and Peter [...]

Budget timing tricks do nothing to help small business, or the economy

May 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Richard Holden, UNSW Australia I’ve always thought all businesses capable of creating jobs and wealth, regardless of their size. There’s certainly no economic theory that [...]

Indigenous Australians And Climate Change Missing From Budget 2016/17

May 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Indigenous Australians and climate change are missing from Budget 2016/17 despite the fact we are living in a climate emergency and gaps growing between indigenous [...]

Budget 2016/17 – A Budget For Small Business But Not Much For Workers

May 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

The theme of Scott Morrison’s first budget was tax cuts for business and “growth of jobs”. The old mantra of “ensuring the Government lives within its [...]