Tuesday, March 25, 2025
ECONOMY

Federal budget 2023: The winners and losers in Treasurer’s cost-of-living budget

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has pledged billions in new spending to help lower income families navigate the cost-of-living crisis as he handed down his second budget on Tuesday night. Long-awaited healthcare reforms were also unveiled as...
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ECONOMY

Robodebt Cancer – has our public service become the secret service?

When ‘self-ambition’ cells in a senior public servant’s body grow and multiply, outflanking the ‘do public good’ cells, the diagnosis may be referred to as ‘Robodebt Cancer’; named after the malignant public service cancer...
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ECONOMY

Scott Morrison’s dodgy grants

“The democratic process is not using public money for party political purposes. That’s not democracy,” Anne Twomey, professor emerita of constitutional law at the University of Sydney, shot back Nationals Senator Canavan: “That’s a different...
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ECONOMY

Why did gas prices go from $10 a gigajoule to $800 a gigajoule?

Why did gas prices go from $10 a gigajoule to $800 a gigajoule? An expert on the energy crisis engulfing Australia Samantha Hepburn, Deakin University Australia’s east coast has been plunged into an energy crisis just as...
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ECONOMY

Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve found 13 ways to fill it

Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve found 13 ways to fill it Kate Griffiths, Grattan Institute; Danielle Wood, Grattan Institute, and Iris Chan, Grattan Institute No one likes spending cuts and tax...
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ECONOMY

Email reveals top bureaucrat pressed ombudsman to delete comments questioning robodebt’s legality

Email reveals top bureaucrat pressed ombudsman to delete comments questioning robodebt’s legality Correspondence published by inquiry show then Human Services head told federal watchdog she was concerned about comments and wanted them removed. The former...
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ECONOMY

The Robodebt Royal Commission is hearing damning evidence of public sector dysfunction

Laura Tingle 7.30's chief political correspondent writes. The commission was also shown minutes from a meeting between the DHS and PwC in March 2017, in which department officials suggested that "political criticism has lost...
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ECONOMY

Robodebt and the transmission of shame

Kathryn Campbell stifled a laugh when, in September 2018, she recalled the rollout of the robodebt program during her time as head of the Department of Human Services. “What happened was a number of...
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