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Australian budget 2016

Australian federal budget, 3 May 2016

October 2016

  • CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service Cassandra Goldie

    'Welfare mentality' must end: Coalition responds to report on rising poverty

    Research shows nearly 3 million Australians are living below poverty line – government says answer is to get people off welfare, not increase payments

September 2016

  • The exterior of a Centrelink office at Bondi Junction in Sydney, Monday, May 11, 2009. (AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy) NO ARCHVING

    Cutting welfare to fund tax cuts for top earners 'unconscionable', Coalition told

  • Mathias Cormann, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison

    Coalition's path to surplus booby-trapped with budget threats, warns finance

  • Wind turbines

    Cuts to renewables agency will hurt Australia's global R&D ranking, says report

  • The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, shakes hands with Australia’s prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, ahead of the G20 summit in Hangzhou.

    Malcolm Turnbull pushes back on foreign investment after Xi meeting

August 2016

  • Treasurer Scott Morrison holds a press conference in Melbourne, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. (AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy) NO ARCHIVING

    Boost for Scott Morrison as Moody's affirms AAA credit rating

    The treasurer says Labor must now back his budget savings and ‘not play politics’ with banks
  • Lenore Taylor

    Axing clean energy supplement has barely caused a ripple, but it should

    Lenore Taylor
    Although the amounts appear insignificant, the cuts in payments to new welfare recipients will hit hard for the most disadvantaged Australians
  • University of Sydney

    Universities Australia urges government to abandon proposed funding cut

    Submission from universities’ peak body recognises the need for savings and suggests areas where it believes fair adjustments can be made

July 2016

  • Cabinet secretary Arthur Sinodinos (left) and immigration minister Peter Dutton

    Coalition should stick with 2016 budget and super reforms, Arthur Sinodinos says

  • Stephen Koukoulas

    Labor's Chris Bowen – most valuable player of the 2016 election

    Stephen Koukoulas
  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    Hello, Pauline, Derryn, Nick, Jacqui, let’s negotiate: why the budget is toast

    Greg Jericho
  • Andrew Wilkie

    Andrew Wilkie says Coalition has 'no mandate' for election platform

June 2016

  • Malcolm Turnbull, Richard Di Natale and Bill Shorten

    The Guardian view on the Australian election: big ideas shrink in a small-target campaign

    Editorial: The 2016 campaign began with high hopes for bold and positive policies. Eight long weeks later, the major parties have let themselves down
  • The opposition finance spokesman, Tony Burke, and the shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen

    Labor costings: Chris Bowen promises higher surpluses after early increase in deficit

    Shadow treasurer says Labor policies on negative gearing and superannuation would pay dividends in the longer term

    • Family benefits cut: 80% of single parents fear running out of food

    • Welfare sector calls for poverty reduction target and fairer super system

    • Goldman Sachs analysis of company tax cut finds benefits would go offshore

May 2016

  • Margaret Thatcher with Ronald Reagan on the steps of 10 Downing Street in June 1984.

    Cutting corporate tax won't create jobs. It's yesterday's solution to our problems

    Wayne Swan
    As a solution to Australia’s jobs and growth challenges, a corporate tax cut doesn’t make it even into the top 10 of sensible policy responses
  • Scott Morrison and Chris Bowen shake hands after the treasurers’ debate at the National Press Club on Friday.

    Lenore Taylor on politics
    Morrison and Bowen produce a lively treasurers' debate, but costings are no clearer

    Election 2016: Treasurers’ debate at the National Press Club is full of informed arguments, except on key points
  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    No jobs and growth joy for Coalition in latest investment figures

    Greg Jericho
    Sharp falls in capital expenditure continue in March quarter, marking record 14 quarters in a row of declining investment
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