The Budget process is significantly behind schedule, according to sources in the Canberra bureaucracy, delayed by the continuing collapse in revenue projections and the need to find all possible savings, writes Bernard Keane.
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Meeja annoints Tanner Treasurer
If you believe the nation’s broadsheets, Lindsay Tanner should have inherited the keys to the economy long ago, writes Andrew Crook.
Costello rising: Labor braces for an early election
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Liberal Party has decided to drop Malcolm Turnbull and recall Peter Costello to lead them at the next federal election, writes Alex Mitchell.
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.
Operation Sunlight: lifting the lid on government transparency
The Rudd Government continues to make significant progress in increasing governmental transparency and accountability, writes Bernard Keane.
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Happy Kruddiversary: as good as it gets
Within Kevin Rudd, there’s still the little kid from Nambour who almost can’t believe he’s running the country, writes Bernard Keane.
A deficit might be the most decisive thing
The current word games and debates about whether the Government will have the courage to plunge into the red are rather misleading, writes Bernard Keane.
Death to working families: Rudd gets decisive
The target of the Government’s keyword tactic is the voter who probably doesn’t read a newspaper, writes Bernard Keane.
The fiscal massacre that laid the Rudd agenda to rest
Turns out we missed the opportunity to invest the proceeds of the mining boom and we’ll have to wait until the Rise of China and India Part II reaches these shores several years hence, writes Bernard Keane.
Banks dig in over RBA cut
The refusal of the banks to pass on the full cut is simple gouging, writes Bernard Keane.
Can we trust the ABS’s job numbers any longer?
The job numbers for July are in and they raise more questions than they answer, writes Glenn Dyer.
Kohler: The Budget that Tanner built
Remarkably, the Finance Minister has found $2 billion more in savings than Swan and Rudd are spending, writes Alan Kohler.
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Memo finance minister: War on drugs is all cost, no benefit
Drug law enforcement is throwing good money after bad, writes Dr Alex Wodak.
This razor gang might just be a cut above the rest
The warning that carers’ bonuses may be scrapped in the Budget is only the first of what are likely to be a number of razor slash stories between now and Budget night, writes Bernard Keane.
More bad figures for Nelson: Morgan
Opposition leader Brendan Nelson has clocked up his second nine per cent in a week, writes Christian Kerr.
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Swan and Tanner: a study in contrasts
It’s very early days, but the Rudd Government seems determined to follow the path the Hawke administration stumbled onto and be realistic economic reformers. But Wayne Swan seems to have been lost for words over the past few days as he has tried to talk tough on rate rises, writes Christian Kerr.
Finance Dept reins in the spending
With every new Federal government, the Department of Finance dusts off long-held savings initiatives in the hope – usually justified –that its new masters will bite, writes David MacCormack.
Mungo MacCallum: Howard’s decline, part 4
The central [issue] was always going to be The Economy, Stupid, and Rudd knew it, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Hey, Lindsay Tanner: Want to save $500m plus on fisheries?
With a colossal tax package to deliver in next year’s budget, how is Team Kevin going to place maximum downward pressure on interest rates without flooding the economy while new money? It’s all about savings, says Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner, who may care to turn his gaze to fisheries. Lionel Elmore reports.
Team Rudd: factions, feuds and fancies
Even before he’s been sworn in, Kevin Rudd has had a major win – convincing the media that he has beaten the factions and accrued unprecedented power to himself, writes Christian Kerr.
