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Topic: 2011 federal budget
Treasurer Wayne Swan delivered Australia's 2012-11 financial year performance yesterday -- with a bucket-load of spin. If only business CFOs could get away with it ...

Fiscal incompetence? No, just not very good

Economy

Sep 25, 2012

12

Given the magnitude of the burden of mental illness and the scope and extent of needs in the mental health sector, the Gillard government's significant down payment on new and expanded services can only be considered the beginning, writes <b>Lesley Russell</b>.

Mental health and the budget: positive steps but many gaps remain

Federal

May 25, 2011

If CCS is a failure, then we deserve to know where our money has gone.

Carbon capture is doomed — is government finally backing away?

Environment

May 20, 2011

The federal budget uses social stereotyping to show the government as tough.

Budget breakdown: making a society more fragile

Federal

May 20, 2011

3

It is concerning that the plan to return the budget to surplus in 2012-13 is dependent on rising commodity prices and the ongoing expansion of the resource sector, write <b>James Arvanitakis</b> and <b>Alex Surace</b>, fellows at the Centre for Policy Development.

Budget breakdown: the disease that ate the budget

Environment

May 18, 2011

3

Does anything distinctively Labor remain in the Gillard government, asks <b>John Quiggin</b>, an economist from the University of Queensland?

Budget breakdown: why Gillard’s Labor has lost its heritage

Federal

May 17, 2011

Crikey readers have their say.

Huffing and puffing over Fukushima coverage

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

May 16, 2011

4

So the impact of the budget has been measured by the pollsters and nothing really has changed.

The budget yawn.

Richard Farmer’s chunky bits

May 16, 2011

1

Can arbitrary cuts under the guise of efficiency deliver a better public service? <b>James Whelan</b> and <b>Jennifer Doggett</b> take a look at the political and policy failure that is the Efficiency Dividend. What will these continued cuts mean for Australians/us?

Budget breakdown: bean counting compromises public service

Federal

May 16, 2011

2

The whole Women's Budget statement is a paean of praise for the virtues of hard work and economic participation, like so much of the rest of the budget

Cox: PM’s macho social agenda has balls but no heart

Federal

May 13, 2011

6

Crikey reads have tehir say.

Middle-class welfare

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

May 13, 2011

5

<b>Crikey media wrap</b>: Opposition leader Tony Abbott summoned the ghost of Liberal great Robert Menzies in his budget reply speech last night.

Abbott’s pitches to the “forgotten
families”

Federal

May 13, 2011

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There are 68 articles in 2011 federal budget