Childcare rebate


RBA Minutes: What they (yawn) said

Reserve Bank of Australia, Minutes of Monetary Policy Meeting of the Board: Sydney - 6 November 2007.

Crikey Policy Comparison Part 8: Childcare

As Howard and Rudd fight over who will give “working families” a better future after November 24, both of the leaders go around kissing babies and visiting schools. However, Crikey wonders how the politcal opponents would like it if a strange man kissed their baldspots? However, we digress. As part of their family appeal, Labor and Liberal have proposed what they will do about childcare.

Coalition launch: First reactions from the media

What the papers are saying straight off the bat…

Rates: the Government’s fault? Economists tell

With another rate rise looking possible before November 24, Crikey asked four of Australia’s leading economists how much control the government actually has over the CPI figures, and should we be blaming them for a potential rate rise?