Social Justice
Single parents have been targeted with policy changes to welfare payments in the delivery of yesterdays budget. Single parents will...
Politics & Economy
The federal government made good its promise of a surplus in this year’s federal budget – it’s $1.5 billion which...
While many programs for disadvantaged Australians look like they’ll be spared in the budget, there are concerns among some NGO’s...
The federal government has finished its budget, and the signs are that many programs for the least well off in...
Worsening economic conditions are making it more difficult for the government to get the budget back into surplus. But today...
Quibbling over implementation details is threatening to derail a new, independent budget office for federal parliament. The office would provide...
Health
Australians with mental illnesses will soon get the support they need after the Federal Government announced it will spend 2.2...
The budget announcement has raised questions about whether the Gillard government is really committed to closing the gap.
As Treasurer Wayne Swan put it, the Governments budget was all about ‘jobs, jobs and jobs’ with the aim to...
Treasurer Wayne Swan is focussing on the positives in his first budget under Prime Minister Julia Gillard – low unemployment,...
