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Reportage of the federal budget was generally of a high quality, but some media outlets were sidetracked by the pointless question of who is rich and who is not, writes <b>Greg Jericho</b>.

Jericho: The question is not ‘who is rich’ but ‘who cares’?

May 12, 2011

Mental health is a particularly fraught area of public policy. <em>Croakey</em> presents two pieces which provide some historical and current context to the cutbacks to the Better Access program, which were announced in this week's federal budget.

Some context to the budget’s mental health announcements

May 12, 2011

The low figures for the Treasurer's speech and then the 7.30 discussion program at 8pm, plus Lateline and Lateline Business tells us that viewers were bored.

Budget goes cold as Australia’s Got Talent cooks MasterChef

Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings

May 11, 2011

our sentences from this morning's Liberal Party missive on the budget sum up the attack to come.

The budget attack to come

Richard Farmer’s chunky bits

May 11, 2011

Wayne Swan’s presentation remains dead ordinary, but his messaging has been reasonably good in the wake of the budget.

Wayne Swan moves in to the spotlight

May 11, 2011

The federal budget was not a collection of deep cuts, but rather a lot of tiny ones. The Labor government simply doesn't have the numbers to be bold, says the <em>BBC's</em> <b>Nick Bryan</b>.

The BBC perspective: quasi-austere Swan delivers politically cautious budget

May 11, 2011

What will the budget do for healthcare? <em>Croakey</em> presents media statements from the Public Health Association and Consumers Health Forum and Doctors Reform Society.

A wrap of reaction to the health budget

Luke Buckmaster

May 11, 2011

The Budget Lock-up: What every taxpayer should know

First Dog On The Moon

First Dog On The Moon

May 10, 2011

Federal Budget Live Blog

May 10, 2011

For many of Australia’s finest political journalists it’s out of the lock-up and straight to the bar — but not before filing copy for tomorrow’s edition. Here's the initial round-up of the first impressions of budget 2011.

Post-budget media wrap: what they’re saying

May 10, 2011

The politics: it won’t save the government, but it won’t kill it

May 10, 2011

A collapse in receipts has ripped a $16 billion hole in government finances over this year and next. Treasurer Wayne Swan has revealed a budget deficit for 2011-12 of $22.6 billion, up $10.3 billion from November. This year’s deficit has increased $8 billion to $49.4 billion.

Keane: the challenge of Swan’s two-speed budget

May 10, 2011

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