May 18, 2012
We feel we have to set the record straight after some of our (Bradshaw’s) comments were taken grossly out of context, or not considered at all (Ritchie’s). A bubbling kerfuffle in the media over the last week compels us to establish some ... ...
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May 9, 2012
ABC Online, May 8, David Barnett
Wayne Swan had two good reasons for getting the budget back into balance: one of them the political necessity imposed by the Government's profligacy and the second because the debt is mounting back to the level of the bad old days.
In 1997 the Howard government treasurer Peter Costello inherited a net public d... ...
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May 9, 2012
One of its own vied for attention on the government's banner day, writes Tony Wright.
CRAIG THOMSON was the loneliest man in the House of Representatives on budget day.
Inhabiting what appeared to be a total exclusion zone on the crossbenches... ...
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May 8, 2012
SMH Nicholas Stuart May 8, 2012
The government has quietly taken a decision to radically challenge our conception of Australia's place in the world
Tonight's budget is going to have to slash away at government programs across the board if it's going to meet Wayne Swan's objective of returning to surplus. When every o... ...
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April 20, 2012
West Australian, Page: 20
By Frank Roberts
Thursday, 19 April 2012
n 1972, the planners of the Bibbulmun Track conceived a walk from Albany to Lancelin, and when you look at a map of the current track, the northern terminus at Kalamunda seems an odd place to end what is becoming one of the great walks of the world.
Perth remains so ta... ...
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April 20, 2012
Andrew Bolt
, Friday, April, 20, 2012, (12:15am)
The ABC falls for the spin:
The Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has dismissed claims by the chairman of Fortescue Metals Group that Kevin Rudd brokered a new mining tax deal just before he was ousted…
Ms Gillard says there is no truth to Mr Forrest’s claims... ...
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April 20, 2012
SMH Jessica Wright April 20, 2012 - 12:30PM
Labor is reportedly considering increasing superannuation tax contributions for the nation’s highest earners.
More than $30 billion in superannuation tax breaks are reportedly at risk as the federal government searches for savings to haul the May 8 budget into surplus... ...
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March 19, 2012
Louise Tarran Punch Online 17 March 2012
Only a couple of generations ago, it was normal for Australian families to take care of their older members right to the end of their lives. Our parents and grandparents fed, clothed, loved and cared for us, gave us everything we needed to make our way in life and then, when they reached an age... ...
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February 17, 2012
The West Australian 17 February 21012
WA will lose more than $400 million from its share of the GST next financial year to prop up flood-ravaged Queensland.
In another blow to the State Government's bottom line, the Commonwealth Grants Commission's review of GST payments is understood to back the deep cut to WA's share.
But the move will incre... ...
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February 15, 2012
By ABC's Louise Maher
Updated February 14, 2012 15:09:51
Though not necessarily illiterate, an estimated seven million Australians are struggling with low literacy levels.
What you're doing right now – reading and understanding these words – is difficult if not impossible for a staggering number of Australians.
Nearly half t... ...
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