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Australian budget 2021

25 May 2021

  • Shankar Kasynathan with his parents

    double quotation markWe don’t come to Australia expecting to be on welfare, but it’s hard for migrants without a lifeline

    Shankar Kasynathan
    Australian communities embrace new migrants like my family but government must play its part

23 May 2021

  • Young boy resting on mother’s shoulderA young boy being held by his mother with his head resting on her shoulder, looking down a suburban street.

    Coalition spent 30 times more on tax cuts than women’s economic security in 2021 budget

    The budget does nothing to specifically support single mothers on low incomes or older women facing homelessness, report finds

19 May 2021

  • Victorian treasurer Tim Pallas

    Optimistic, ambitious and a little bit snarky: Victoria’s treasurer serves up a 2021 rebound budget

    Tim Pallas distinguishes himself from Josh Frydenberg by outspending the commonwealth on mental health and infrastructure
  • Construction in Brisbane last year.

    How Australia’s Covid recovery spending compares with the rest of the world

    When it comes to infrastructure and public investment, many other countries have been more ambitious – especially on green stimulus
  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    double quotation markAustralia’s latest wage figures seem promising – but only if you don’t look too closely

    Greg Jericho
    The worry is that we need both unemployment and underemployment to be lower than ever to get decent wages growth

15 May 2021

  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics graph of the week
    double quotation markThe Morrison government is big on spending, but small on vision

    Greg Jericho
    The Coalition has changed its tune on debt and deficit, but the budget shows no ambition beyond pretending everything worked fine before Covid

14 May 2021

  • Housing, childcare, aged care and climate change – how do the Coalition and Labor policies stack up?

    Budget 2021: how do the speeches from Australia's major parties compare? – video

    Housing, childcare, aged care and climate change – how do the Coalition and Labor policies stack up?

    Video3:49
  • Katharine Murphy

    Katharine Murphy on politics
    double quotation markLike a punch thrown, then pulled, the federal budget pitch felt oddly undercooked

    Katharine Murphy
    Budget week is normally the most hectic week of the political year, but after Tuesday, the tempo lapsed into listlessness
  • Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison coronavirus press conference in Canberra<br>epa08423255 Australian National Mental Health Commission CEO Christine Morgan (L) and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (R) speak to the media during a press conference regarding coronavirus, in Canberra, Australia, 15 May 2020. According to media reports, Australia has recorded over 6,000 cases of coronavirus and COVID-19. EPA/MICK TSIKAS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

    Australian Politics
    How the budget will impact Australia’s mental health system – Australian politics podcast

    Katharine Murphy talks to Christine Morgan, CEO of the national mental health commission, about the budget’s $2.3bn mental health package which is being touted by the federal government as ‘the largest single mental health and suicide prevention’ plan in budget history
    Podcast36:06

13 May 2021

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    Will keeping Australia’s borders closed change who we are as a nation? – with Lenore Taylor

    This week’s budget had an important underlying assumption – that Australia’s borders would remain closed until mid-2022. Taylor and head of news Mike Ticher unpick the implications
    Podcast20:31
  • File photo of a carpenter building a new home in the western suburbs in Sydney, Australia

    Federal budget fails to address Australia’s housing shortage and homelessness, experts say

    Building houses should be part of the Morrison government’s infrastructure package, community housing providers say

    • Australian politics live with Amy Remeikis
      Anthony Albanese delivers budget reply speech – as it happened

    • Anthony Albanese pledges $10bn social housing fund in Labor’s federal budget reply

    • double quotation mark As the US and EU get on with green recovery, Australia has missed a huge opportunity

      Bill Hare

12 May 2021

  • A woman and a toddler pushing a toy stroller

    ‘Demeaning’ crackdown on single mothers scrapped, budget papers reveal

  • Labor leader Anthony Albanese

    Anthony Albanese’s budget reply to focus on entrepreneurs, renewable energy and women

  • Scott Morrison

    Australian arts in focus
    Culture beats construction in Covid economic recovery, report finds

  • The Central Queensland University campus in Sydney

    Australian universities brace for ‘ugly’ 2022 after budget cuts

  • Grogonomics
    double quotation markThe secret of the budget? The big help is that we’re stuck in Australia

    Greg Jericho

  • Huge marine parks off Christmas and Cocos islands target illegal foreign fishing

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