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Bill Shorten's savings package looks a little desperate

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

Labor’s weakest flank in this election is economic credibility and it knows it.

A combination of the past, including memories of Wayne Swan’s ever-elusive surplus, and the present, with the perception that Labor is throwing a lot of money around, is putting Bill Shorten under intense pressure as he looks towards the final three weeks of...

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Labor searches for savings amid family benefits reform

  • Written by: Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Labor is trying to find savings by targeting the family tax benefit as part of its plan for budget repair. Even though its measures don’t go as far as the Coalition’s, outlined in the budget, its cuts will hurt families with a higher income.

Labor will tighten the means test on end-of-year supplements for Family Tax Benefit A, reducing...

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Labor finds $16 billion more savings to put on the table

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

The opposition has announced more than A$16 billion in new and updated budget savings over a decade, as Labor leader Bill Shorten seeks to convince voters that Labor would manage the budget credibly.

Its budget improvements are in three categories: revised numbers from the Parliamentary Budget Office for its previously announced measures (which now...

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White Bay rethink hinges on who looks out for the public interest in remaking Sydney

  • Written by: Tarsha Finney, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
imageThe White Bay Power Station is a prime harbourside redevelopment site.Wikimedia Commons

The New South Wales government has announced, through its development agency UrbanGrowth, that it will assume the role of master developer of the White Bay Power Station site in Sydney’s inner west.

The announcement on Thursday ended a lengthy...

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  2. We know _why_ bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, but _how_ does this actually happen?
  3. The public should be concerned when academics must battle bureaucrats for academic freedom
  4. Removing social media hate speech within 24 hours sounds like a good idea, but...
  5. Election FactCheck: is it true no solely managed Commonwealth fishery is subject to overfishing?
  6. Cathedrals of light, cathedrals of ice, cathedrals of glass, cathedrals of bones
  7. It takes a village: law reform can't be the only response to online child abuse material
  8. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Nick Xenophon Team
  9. City sparrows came to Australia via India
  10. Is small business really the engine room of Australia's economy?
  11. What are the implications of privatising land title offices?
  12. Speaking with: Deb Warr on poverty porn
  13. New technology offers hope for storing carbon dioxide underground
  14. Does tourism really suffer at sites listed as World Heritage In Danger?
  15. Coal and industrial relations: how miners secured workers' rights
  16. How Australians Die: cause #5 – diabetes
  17. Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary law
  18. From little things: the role of the Aboriginal customary law report in Mabo
  19. Law reports push piecemeal changes to native title, but still fall short
  20. The ACTU is a key Labor supporter but how much power does it actually have?
  21. Why the voice of Big Business is facing its biggest test
  22. Vital Signs: central bankers longing for growth that may not come
  23. Friday essay: punk's legacy, 40 years on
  24. Driverless cars need to hit the road come rain, wind or shine
  25. Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians
  26. Confusion about Senate rules could produce winners with small votes: Australia Institute
  27. Labor to release savings package
  28. Election podcast: Nick Xenophon on his play for Senate power
  29. Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Nick Xenophon
  30. Vote 1 'Other': what's driving more voters to back a minor party this election
  31. The ghost of the 'greedy geezers' hovers over our super debate
  32. Seven's Olympic coverage could change the way we watch sport on our screens
  33. Can The Avalanches flourish in a pop music world remade in their own image?
  34. The Hobbit took our breath away: now it's the new normal
  35. Why we need to pay more attention to negative clinical trials
  36. Election FactCheck: has $100 billion been added to Australia's national debt under the current government?
  37. Naming the 'invisible perpetrator': a big step forward for media coverage of violence against women
  38. Flat-earth economists lead the hysteria over budget deficits
  39. Computing told us how close we came to a global pandemic of a drug-resistant flu
  40. Michelle Grattan in conversation: Australian voters disengaged and disillusioned
  41. Speed networking: how to win Euro 2016
  42. Corporate venture capital can pay, but only if you get the structure right
  43. Six reasons why food is a really big deal
  44. Lobbying 101: how interest groups influence politicians and the public to get what they want
  45. Patient advocate or doctors' union? How the AMA flexes its political muscle
  46. How Australians Die: cause #4 – chronic lower respiratory diseases
  47. 'Character' and 'behaviour' off the field should not be selection criteria for the Olympics
  48. Coal was king of the Industrial Revolution, but not always the path to a modern economy
  49. It's time we broke up the retail arms of Australia's Big Four banks
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