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Morrison's fresh start budget comes with fresh pain

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageTreasurer Scott Morrison explains the budget in the lock-up.AAP/Lukas Coch

Scott Morrison has delivered a surprisingly big taxing budget that pays for the last burial rites of the 2014 toxic Abbott legacy.

The Medicare levy will be increased to fund the hyper-expensive NDIS, and Australia’s big banks are being slugged with a new tax. The...

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Budget 2017: government still tinkering with housing affordability

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

It’s unsurprising that in the lead-up to this year’s federal budget there was a lot of discussion about housing affordability as its centrepiece. Over the past 20 years price-to-income and price-to-rent ratios have doubled. Sydney’s price-to-income ratio is over 12, making it the second-least-affordable city in the world....

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Budget 2017: bank populism will be paid for by Australians

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Treasurer Scott Morrison used to like to say Australia “doesn’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem”. It turns out this sentiment was true in 2016.

Now this year’s federal budget is a big-taxing, populist, and nakedly political one. It’s not all bad news, or even all bad policy, but it marks a break from...

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Winning ugly: the AOC election and the Olympic spirit

  • Written by: Daryl Adair, Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
imageAAP/Wendell Teodoro

Outside the staging of summer and winter Olympic Games, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), which oversees the selection and participation of Australia’s athletes, rarely features in public debate.

In contrast, the recent election campaign for the presidency of the AOC was dramatic viewing. For the first time in 27...

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