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Budget 2020 | Photo credit: AAP:Lukas Coch

The budget’s tax cuts have their critics, but this year they...

By Richard Holden, UNSW This year’s budget is something of a play in two acts. Act one involves large economic stimulus to help plug the...
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minutes
Back in black | Photo: Wes Mountain

Budget 2020: promising tax breaks, but relying on hope

By Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Tax cuts aren’t the half of it. The personal income tax cuts promised in the...
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minutes
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg | Photo credit: AAP:Lukas Coch

Budget 2020: Frydenberg tells Australians, ‘we have your back’

By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Accelerated tax cuts, cash splashes for pensioners, massive incentives for business to invest and a subsidy to hire unemployed...
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minutes
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It’s National Buy Aussie Day: October 1st

Australians will be asked to STOP .. and SHOP AUSTRALIAN in our first ‘National Buy Aussie Day’ to be held next week on Thursday October 1st The retail...
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4
minutes
Unemployment queue | Stefan Postles:AAP

Unemployment support will be slashed by $300 this week. This won’t...

By Bruce Bradbury, UNSW and Peter Whiteford, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University This week, support for unemployed Australians will be dramatically reduced. In...
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5
minutes
Melbourne Flinders Station | Photo James Ross | AAP

Who suffers most from Melbourne’s extended lockdown? Hint: they are not...

By Peter Robertson, University of Western Australia Businesses are protesting vociferously about Victoria’s extended lockdown. It’s “gut-wrenching,” “devastating,” a “trainwreck,” a “death knell”. Yet businesses and...
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