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Australian budget 2021

  • Shankar Kasynathan with his parents

    We 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
  • 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
  • Victorian treasurer Tim Pallas

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

  • Construction in Brisbane last year.

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

  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    Australia’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
  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics graph of the week
    The 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
  • 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?

  • Katharine Murphy

    Katharine Murphy on politics
    Like 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
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    Full Story
    Will keeping Australia’s borders closed change who we are as a nation? – with Lenore Taylor

  • 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

  • Labor leader Anthony Albanese delivers the budget reply speech in the House of Representatives

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

  • Labor leader Anthony Albanese delivers his budget reply speech

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

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

    Bill Hare
  • ‘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

    The Labor leader will unveil a new program dubbed ‘Start Up Year’ to help 2,000 young people participate in accelerator programs
  • Scott Morrison

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

    Twice as many jobs could have been created during the Covid crisis if the federal government had invested in culture rather than construction
    • Australian universities brace for ‘ugly’ 2022 after budget cuts

    • Grogonomics
      The 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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