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Topic: federal budget 2011
This year there has been a striking -- but completely unnoticed -- correlation between the federal government’s mental health initiatives and the dominant theme in Australian films. <b>Luke Buckmaster</b> explains.

Parallels between mental health initiatives and portrayals in Australian film

Federal

May 20, 2011

Joe Hockey's budget reply address was a ludicrous quasi economic lecture capped off by a grilling from the press gallery, writes <b>Greg Jericho</b>.

Jericho: Hockey’s budget reply address was an embarrassment

Federal

May 19, 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

Federal

May 13, 2011

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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

Environment

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

31

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?

Crikey Says

May 12, 2011

4

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

Federal

May 11, 2011

12

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’

Economy

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

Defence

May 11, 2011

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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

Federal

May 11, 2011

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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?

Economy

May 11, 2011

Young journalist and politics wonk <b>Josh Taylor</b> explains what it's like being in the budget lock-up for the first time, including sitting next to Glenn Milne and spying on Leigh Sales getting her makeup done.

Losing my budget lock-up virginity

Journalism

May 11, 2011

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