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New Zealand's well-being approach to budget is not new, but could shift major issues

  • Written by: Arthur Grimes, Professor of Wellbeing and Public Policy, Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand's well-being approach to budget is not new, but could shift major issuesFinance minister Grant Robertson will announce New Zealand's first budget that uses a well-being measures.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

At the end of this month, New Zealand will release its first “Well-being Budget”. It builds on treasury’s Living Standards Framework (LSF), published last December, which introduced a suite...

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Labor ahead in Newspoll and Ipsos, as Keating comments stir security issue

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

Labor has remained in an election-winning position in Newspoll and the Ipsos poll, although they show widely different movements in Bill Shorten’s ratings.

But Labor faced fresh pressure after Paul Keating gave the government an opening to shift the debate onto security, when he declared Australia’s security chiefs should be sacked...

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Shorten presents the ‘case for change’ in sleek launch

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

Bill Shorten’s Sunday launch in Brisbane was politics at its most slickly professional. Every box was ticked.

Indigenous dancers were part of the Welcome to Country. Pat Dodson - who would be Indigenous affairs minister in a Shorten government - pledged Labor would “walk with First Nations peoples”.

The star roles of Penny Wong...

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Money for hospital emergency departments in Shorten’s campaign launch

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

Bill Shorten will announce funding to upgrade hospital emergency departments and cut waiting times at Labor’s Sunday campaign launch, which will be attended by three former prime ministers to highlight a theme of unity.

An ALP government would invest A$500 million in the emergency departments, half of which comes from Labor’s already...

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  15. more preference deals as pre-polling begins
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  24. Friday essay: networked hatred - new technology and the rise of the right
  25. We need to treat borderline personality disorder for what it really is – a response to trauma
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  27. Blockchain can help break the chains of modern slavery, but it is not a complete solution
  28. UK becomes first country to declare a 'climate emergency'
  29. Young people won't accept inaction on climate change, and they'll be voting in droves
  30. what does Clive Palmer actually want?
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  40. Labor wants to restore 'demand driven' funding to universities: what does this mean?
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  42. how digital advertising is shaping this election campaign
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