There’s no doubt that Malcolm Turnbull should have been there in the House of Representatives when votes were taken.
Budget deficit
Essential: hit companies, not welfare, to fix the deficit
Voters would prefer companies and high income earners to pay more tax rather than welfare recipients getting slugged, today’s Essential Report shows.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: To keel a Sunrise: shame Crikey shame
Crikey readers have their say.
Everything’s up, except the deficit — and housing
Today’s Mid-Year Economic Forecast (MYEFO) shows an appreciable acceleration in economic growth this year, but as expected the higher dollar has hit government revenue.
Rich unemployed are good news for the budget bottom line
The budget deficit will come in at a much smaller number than is currently being projected. Possum Comitatus explains how.
Obama’s deficit dilemma
Obama’s deficit spending will push up interest rates and weaken the US dollar, say Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, and a massive inflationary storm could be brewing.
podcast Canberra Calling: Debt and deficit — off into the future
Deficit is the hardest word.
podcast Canberra Calling: The Crikey budget podcast
Jonathan Green, Bernard Keane and the segue chicken discuss all the important and exciting bits of the budget, with bonus ETS!
Budget deficits and the grand hypocrisy of Peter Costello
The biggest public policy issue in Australia at the moment is the size of our budget deficit. The man most responsible is Peter Costello.
Budget countdown: $50b deficit is just the beginning
The hunt for savings within the Commonwealth budget is unlikely to make much of a dent in the looming shortfalls.
This year the cut and thrust of the Budget is for real
This will be the toughest budget to frame since, probably, the recession budgets of the early 1990s, writes Bernard Keane.
PM reluctant to draw a veil over Keating
It is differences of opinion, it appears, that make a Coalition when it comes to election campaign tactics. The last few days have revealed a clear difference in approach between the Liberal Party and the National Party.
Why John Howard never made the cover of Euromoney
John Howard’s old boss, Malcolm Fraser, has rejected claims he stopped his treasurer from coming forward with reform proposals.
