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Parallels between mental health initiatives and portrayals in Australian film

May 20, 2011

It's been a generally positive federal budget for the arts and culture sectors. But the efficiency dividend will hit smaller cultural institutions hard.

Picking through the scraps of budget arts funding

May 13, 2011

In the first of a series of post-budget reports, <b>Fiona Armstrong</b> and <b>Laura Eadie</b> from the Centre for Policy Development explore options to encourage innovation and roll out less mature renewable energy technologies.

Budget breakdown: the holding pattern on clean-tech investment

May 13, 2011

<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<br>families”

May 13, 2011

News Limited papers are proud of igniting this "debate" -- based on the very flimsy fact that the government have extended the existing pause on indexation of the thresholds at which middle-class welfare cuts out.

Crikey says: who’s middle class?

May 12, 2011

Another year, another budget night binge drinking session that failed to reach even the middling heights of 2010, despite Tony Abbott’s best efforts at the notorious Portia’s Place Chinese restaurant.

The after-party: tribal journos jostle with Abbott, advisers

May 11, 2011

It's a "softly, softly" budget, the economists say; it has "the appearance of a mouse". <em>Crikey</em> asked the nation's money men for their assessment of Wayne Swan's fourth budget.

Ask the economists: ‘more like a feather than a sledgehammer’

May 11, 2011

For nearly two decades, Australia's annual budget has been a bit of a ho-hum experience for Defence. But last night it got raided for the first time in years, says <b>Graeme Dobell</b>.

Defence: no longer untouchable, the ADF got mugged

May 11, 2011

Within seconds of Wayne Swan finishing his budget speech, medical researchers were celebrating. And there was good news for regional universities too, writes <b>Erica Cervini</b>.

Education: researchers, regional universities rejoice

May 11, 2011

Wayne Swan continues to pledge that the federal budget will return to surplus by 2012-13. The big question is why we’re not already there, asks <b>Karen Maley</b>?

Maley: why aren’t we already in surplus?

May 11, 2011

<b>Crikey media wrap</b>: Wayne Swan's biggest day of the year is over, and the verdicts on this year's restrained budget, announced with much fanfare in Canberra yesterday, have been pouring in.

A frugal budget to get people back to work

May 11, 2011

This is a dour, politically cautious budget.

Crikey says: a politically cautious budget

May 10, 2011

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