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All the secret budget costs you’re not allowed to know about

It’s your tax money — just don’t ask where it’s going.

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Another surplus? How big? Here’s the budget at a glance

There’s money for defence, tax cuts, housing, energy rebates, and much more. Here’s your quick guide to the budget.

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Budget tells of a struggling economy in which employment is defying gravity

For its utopian visions of the rebirth of Australian manufacturing, Labor knows it needs workers. But where will they come from?

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Is this the closest we’ll get to a stereotypical Labor budget?

The federal budget is equal parts restraint and reform, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said in his press conference this afternoon. In fact, it’s neither.

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Labor’s budget eyes a flagging economy and voters. But is it a ‘magic pudding’?

With an election on the horizon, the government’s budget is heavy with stimulus-focused spending that it’ll be hoping appeases voters. But will it worsen inflation?

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Treasurer frolics under the budget tree, Crikey heads into lock-up, and Seven reprimands itself

This week’s tips and murmurs includes a dispatch from Parliament on budget day, and some fun times for Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

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No Mercy: A review of Scott Morrison’s memoir

‘Repetition, cliché, malapropism, daft diction, plodding syntax, more cliché, and bucketloads of sentimentality? This book has got it all.’

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A tale of two exports: Education versus gas shows we’re a carbon-captured state

What a contrast in government policy: Labor says higher education is too successful at exporting its products and must be blocked. But when it comes to gas, it’s a different story.

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Nine and Seven in a huge fight over a whopping 2,000 newspapers

Two of the biggest players in Australian media have got their gloves off, and it’s on for young and old! But who actually cares?

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Trump, ’68 and screaming into the darkness: The return of George Wallace

Is the 2024 presidential election shaping up like that of 1968? In key ways, no — but there are disturbing echoes.

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Jim Chalmers really, really wants you to know he’s being responsible with the budget

The treasurer has promised the 2024 federal budget will be responsible. He’s said it again and again. And again.

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What is the future of great journalism? Awards give us some clues

Awards like the Pulitzers — and even our own Walkleys — showcase what each generation of journalists thinks of as the best of the craft.

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What does Australia’s vote for Palestine in the UN actually mean?

The vote has caused strong reactions on both sides of the debate.

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Has the budget got a Donald Trump contingency plan?

The international economy faces the threat of major trade war if Donald Trump is elected. And things aren’t much better under Joe Biden.

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The death of my Justice Party was hard to take. But running for Melbourne mayor was just too expensive

It’s not easy being an independent or running a small party in Canberra, writes former senator Derryn Hinch. For starters, there’s the cost.

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For students, Clare has made a good start. Here’s what he should do next

Reverting last year’s bloated HECs indexation was a sensible change. But there’s plenty more to be done to assist students struggling with the cost of living.

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‘My disillusion with Labor is now complete’: Government’s gas plan a bunch of hot air

‘Labor will be punished at the election: no sensible person will listen to the lies and nonsense the party proclaims as good policy.’

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Australia green-lit PwC days before Senate report into tax leaks scandal dropped

The Australian government inexplicably rubber-stamped PwC just days before a cornerstone inquiry into the tax leaks scandal was to deliver its findings.

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Inflation pushes student debts up despite repayments

Analysis of taxpayer data sheds light on who actually benefits from the government’s new HELP policy.

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The right is the main enemy of free speech in Australia — and Gaza got ’em there

They fought 18C, now they’re to criminalise individual words. They can’t beat their opponents with better ideas, so they need the state to ban them.

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‘Fuck yeah I did’: Kiwi man sues Jetstar after booking 58 free flights

‘Not out here doing gags for nothing, mate,’ the man told Crikey.

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Albanese sees a path to victory through the victimhood of WA and Qld voters

Embracing fossil fuels and manufacturing is Labor’s way of trying to woo voters in outlying states for whom the modern economy is too threatening.

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‘Green spin is just a joke’: Qantas pilots rail against airline’s greenwashing tactics

Pilots at the airline tell Crikey that outsourcing, poor aircraft and route management, and prioritising profit over saving fuel have undone efforts to improve fuel efficiency.

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Sliding doors on a flight to Washington: Swan’s budget turnaround

Wayne Swan went to America in April 2008 poised to slash and burn in his first budget. He returned with a very different focus, one that impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of Australians.

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Mehreen Faruqi’s case against Pauline Hanson is about racial discrimination, not defamation. There’s a big difference

‘If you’ve never felt the sting of racist abuse, you might think it’s no different from being defamed.’

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