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To get the 'good debt' tick, infrastructure needs to be fit for the future

  • Written by: Cynthia Mitchell, Professor of Sustainability, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney

In distinguishing between “good” and “bad” debt, federal Treasurer Scott Morrison equates good debt with infrastructure investment. However, not all infrastructure investment announced in the budget is necessarily “good”.

We are now in the Anthropocene – a new geological age defined by the global scale of...

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Prescribing generic drugs will reduce patient confusion and medication errors

  • Written by: Matthew Grant, Research Fellow, Palliative Medicine Physician, Monash University
imageIf doctors prescribe generic drugs rather than their brand name equivalents, most times patients benefit.from www.shutterstock.com

In last night’s federal budget, Treasurer Scott Morrison announced an anticipated range of measures to encourage doctors to prescribe generic medicines rather than their more expensive brand name equivalents. So...

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Budget 2017: Medicare levy rise finances NDIS and banks hit for budget repair

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Taxpayers will be hit with a rise in the Medicare levy and the big banks face a new tax in a budget that pitches to win back disillusioned voters and to reassure the rating agencies.

The government will fully plug the funding hole in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) with an increase of 0.5% in the Medicare levy from July 2019, taking...

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Budget 2017: government goes hard on gas and hydro in bid for energy security

  • Written by: Hugh Saddler, Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
imageGas infrastructure and exploration attracted the lion's share of new energy announcements in the 2017 federal budgetSean Heatley/Shutterstock.com

The budget contains several measures designed to boost energy security, including:

  • A$90 million to expand gas supplies, partly through increased unconventional gas exploration

  • a potential Commonwealth...

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  1. Budget's 'good debt' conversion underpins $70b-plus infrastructure program: experts respond
  2. Budget 2017 sees Medicare rebate freeze slowly lifted and more funding for the NDIS: experts respond
  3. Federal Budget 2017: what's changing in education?
  4. Budget 2017-18 brings welfare crackdown and increased defence and security funding: experts respond
  5. Treasurer Scott Morrison’s 2017-18 budget speech, annotated by experts
  6. The art of the leak: how the budget is strategically doled out for maximum effect
  7. Budget 2017: Morrison heads off the right with an appeal to altruism over self-interest
  8. Infographic: Budget 2017 at a glance
  9. Morrison's fresh start budget comes with fresh pain
  10. Budget 2017: government still tinkering with housing affordability
  11. Budget 2017: bank populism will be paid for by Australians
  12. Winning ugly: the AOC election and the Olympic spirit
  13. Data availability report presents compromised rights for consumers
  14. Life after redundancy: what happens next for journalists when they leave newsrooms
  15. Why Birmingham's performance funding plan won't improve Australian universities
  16. Has the print book trumped digital? Beware of glib conclusions
  17. What's the difference between traumatic fear and moral anger? Trigger warnings won't tell you
  18. Government spending explained in 10 charts; from Howard to Turnbull
  19. Viewpoints: is saturated fat really the killer it's made out to be?
  20. Changes to school funding - your questions answered
  21. Naming suspects in criminal cases opens up ethical minefield
  22. Tax on 'unearned gains' is the missing piece of the affordable housing puzzle
  23. Whiteley: a seductive cinematic portrait of a serious artist
  24. Global warming could accelerate towards 1.5℃ if the Pacific gets cranky
  25. Pilot study on why academics should engage with others in the community
  26. Latham to fight for 'western civilisation' from the Liberal Democrats' kennel
  27. Julie Bishop keeps Abdel-Magied on Australian-Arab board
  28. Therapy for life-threatening eating disorders works, so why can't people access it?
  29. Politics podcast: Andrew Giles on schools funding
  30. TPG bid for Fairfax: what usually happens when private equity meets media?
  31. Discovering Charles Meere: an intriguing, subversive artist
  32. What are 'fasting' diets and do they help you lose weight?
  33. The Conversation chatbot launches in Facebook Messenger
  34. Government out of touch on housing policies ahead of budget: poll
  35. Macron crushes Le Pen 66-34 in French Presidential runoff
  36. The picture of who is affected by 'revenge porn' is more complex than we first thought
  37. Live odds ban debate exposes sport and gambling's uncomfortable mutual dependency
  38. How the politics of the budget might play out for a government in trouble
  39. Turnbull government aims to distance itself from its predecessor with the 2017-18 budget
  40. The future of flying cars: science fact or science fiction
  41. Ten years after the crisis, what is happening to the world's bees?
  42. Junk food packaging hijacks the same brain processes as drug and alcohol addiction
  43. Guide to the classics: the Epic of Gilgamesh
  44. Off the plan: shelter, the future and the problems in between
  45. Technology, once thought the enabler of democracy, is threatening to kill it off
  46. Catholics vow to go hard in schools fight with government
  47. The agile working style started in tech but it could work for banks
  48. The great climate silence: we are on the edge of the abyss but we ignore it
  49. Obamacare repeal vote shows power of US hard right
  50. Gene drives may cause a revolution, but safeguards and public engagement are needed

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