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Budget's 'good debt' conversion underpins $70b-plus infrastructure program: experts respond

  • Written by: Phillip O'Neill, Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University

The government is committing to more than A$70 billion in new infrastructure spending to 2020-21. This includes up to A$5.3 billion for the Western Sydney Airport, and A$8.4 billion towards the Melbourne to Brisbane inland rail link. Another A$500 million will be put towards passenger rail in regional Victoria, A$844 million for upgrades to the...

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Budget 2017 sees Medicare rebate freeze slowly lifted and more funding for the NDIS: experts respond

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
imageThe future of the NDIS is seemingly secured in this federal budget.from shutterstock.com

As expected, the government has announced a progressive lifting of the Medicare rebate freeze. Together with removing the bulk billing incentive for diagnostic imaging and pathology services, as well as an increase in the PBS co-payment and related changes,...

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Federal Budget 2017: what's changing in education?

  • Written by: Louise Watson, Professor and Director, The Education Institute, University of Canberra
imageMost schools will get a boost in funding, while universities will face cuts. Mick Tsikas/AAP

The government is set to save A$2.8 billion over the five years from 2016-17 by reforming the higher education system. This includes a 2.5% efficiency dividend on the Commonwealth Grant Scheme in 2018 and 2019, and a 1.82% annual increase in student...

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Budget 2017-18 brings welfare crackdown and increased defence and security funding: experts respond

  • Written by: Ben Spies-Butcher, Senior Lecturer in Economy and Society, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University
imageThe Australian Federal Police will receive $321.4 million over four years for a range of measures.AAP/Lukas Coch

The government hopes to save A$632 million over five years from 2016-17 by strengthening penalties for non-compliance in Work for the Dole programs. Failure to meet requirements will result in suspended payments, and then escalating...

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

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