iPad prices around the worldThe Apple iPad has finally gone on sale around the world. Will we all pay a premium for not being Americans? Yep, but interestingly, the US model isn’t the cheapest — and the Aussie one isn’t the most expensive.
May, 2010
The Tory-Lib Dem coalition is absurd
What killed the Lib-Lab deal?rumour 
Clegg for Deputy UK PM?
Conservative leader David Cameron has just become Britain’s new Prime Minister — and inside sources have told Sky News that Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg will be named his Deputy PM, along with five or six other Cabinet positions for the party.
Swan’s speech: the wordle
It wouldn’t be a Crikey Budget special edition without a wordle, so here it is without further adieu:
Tax returns to get simpler but accountants suffer
The Government will introduce a standardised deduction for workers filing their income tax returns in 2012, with some 6.4 million Australians expected to receive a tax benefit as part of the scheme, writes Patrick Stafford.
Swan ready to surf the revenue wave
Wayne Swan promised to deliver a “no frills” budget. He’s delivered in spades.
A savings-led surplus? Don’t count on it
The Government is making much of its fiscal rectitude, but the savings aren’t there to justify it.
Economic conservatism is back — and Rudd wants it to carry him to victory
For once this is a Budget where the Government doesn’t want you to focus on the spending. It’s the rapid return to surplus that Kevin Rudd wants you to think about at the election.
Border security gets a billion
The government has put its money where its mouth is when it comes to backing its increasingly hardline rhetoric on border security, flagging $1.2 billion Australia’s borders.
Quiggin: Deconstructing the foreign aid puzzle
More than any other component of the budget, the aid budget is full of puzzles, which make it almost impossible to determine whether the government is delivering on its commitments, writes John Quiggin.
Behind the scenes: journos mull over a boring Budget
There’s no cosier relationship than the one between the federal government and the Australian political press pack.
At a glance: all the numbers
The 2010 federal Budget at a glance.
Quiggin: Rudd’s CPRS backflip a political disaster
The government’s politically costly decision to announce a series of backflips in the space of a few days, just before the Budget, seemed explicable only on the basis of a desire to find expenditure savings. The most prominent backflip, on the CPRS, seemed to fit this pattern, writes John Quiggin.
Swan’s speech: the highlights reel
Wayne Swan’s third budget Speech — the highlights package.
Health continues to top the charts
On top of the public hospital reform spending already announced with the COAG agreement, the 2010 Budget invests a further $2.2 billion over four years in health and hospital reform.
Inside the lockup: what the press asked Swan
Andrew Crook was in the Federal Budget lock up in Canberra and kept notes on which of Australia’s political journalists asked what questions.
Kohler: Return to surplus Rudd’s key election pillar
The centerpiece of Wayne Swan’s third budget is the projection of a $1 billion surplus in 2012-13 — three years earlier than predicted a year ago, but without the resources super profits tax it would have been only one year later, in 2014-15.
Post-Budget media wrap: what the pundits are saying
A round-up of the first impressions of Budget 2010 from the nation’s political and economic commentators.
Gottliebsen: We’re booming, but has Wayne Swan busted it?
Rarely has an Australian treasurer put before the people a financial outlook as strong as Australia’s at a time when much of the world is struggling. But Wayne Swan might have stuffed it with the mining tax, writes Robert Gottliebsen.
Live blog: Keane, Quiggin and Black running the rule over Budget ’10
Come join the Crikey Budget live-blog hilarity!
Crikey Says: Crikey says: Swan’s time to crow
“Tonight we meet the highest standards of responsible economic management,” says Wayne Swan as he delivers his third Budget speech to Parliament as we go to press.
You tweet it, they sold it
Daniel Morel was a professional photographer who uploaded his photos of the Haiti earthquake on to Twitter, where they got distributed and sold by AFP and Getty Images. Morel sent a cease and desist letter. They sued him. Who’s right?
Nexus One got nixed: the death of the Google phone
Remember how the mythical GooglePhone was going to overtake the iPhone? Despite the hype, Nexus One sunk like a stone. Dan Nosowitz explains what went wrong.
