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Australian budget 2015

News and analysis on the 2015 federal budget

19 May 2015

  • Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen

    Chris Bowen warns budget must rein in cost of superannuation tax breaks

    Labor is intent on cracking down on super concessions for wealthy Australians and is prepared to fight an early election on superannuation alone

18 May 2015

  • Two medical students talking

    Datablog
    Why Australian doctors' group opposes funding for new medical school

    Modelling shows the number of medical graduates is outstripping the number of postgraduate training positions available in hospitals

17 May 2015

  • Tony Abbott

    Polls: focus on manufactured fights sees steady movement to Tony Abbott 2.0

    ReachTEL, Galaxy and Newspoll have Labor still ahead on 53% or 52%, but an Ipsos poll, published on Monday, has things at 50/50
  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    Joe Hockey's budget has wrecked the chances of a fair tax review

    Greg Jericho
    Australia’s overdependence on income and company tax to achieve a surplus has made any changes to GST, negative gearing and superannuation unlikely
  • Mother and Baby

    Tony Abbott hints at welfare shakeup as furore over parental leave continues

    Questionable use of Treasury data to suggest some welfare recipients with two small children are better off than singles earning $80,000 a year

15 May 2015

  • Victorian opposition leader Matthew Guy, Tony Abbott and local Liberal member Michael Sukkar in front of a billboard about the scrapped East West Link during a visit to Daisy’s Garden Supplies in Ringwood, Melbourne, on Saturday.

    Tony Abbott: marginal seat tour is about the budget, not an early election

    Prime minister denies claims he’s readying himself for a snap poll as he tours marginal seats across the country to sell his budget
  • Lenore Taylor Political editor

    Lenore Taylor on politics
    Tony Abbott's budget promises and Labor's reply are both about expediency

    Lenore Taylor Political editor
    It’s been a budget week in which politicians battled for air time in news cycle dominated by fate of Johnny Depp’s dogs

    • Business chief: employers must keep paid parental leave despite 'scam' claim

    • Government refuses to rule out funding coal projects across northern Australia

    • Australian budget week: five things we learned

14 May 2015

  • Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey reacts during question time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, May 14, 2015. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

    Joe Hockey: employers who shift parental leave payments 'trying to scam'

  • Bill Shorten budget

    Joe Hockey’s budget a 'smokescreen', says Bill Shorten in reply speech – video

  • Brisbane, June 21, 2001. $300 placed into the wallet of a pensioner today. Older Australians today received a one-off $300 payment from the government as promised in the recent Budget. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

    States contradict Joe Hockey pledge on concessions for former part-pensioners

  • Shan Sherwan Hussein, a University of Southern Indiana graduate student from Iraq, top right, watches her fellow classmates and colleagues take their seats during USI's graduate commencement ceremony on Friday, May 1, 2015 in Evansville, Ind. Hussein is from Sulaymaniyah, a city in Kurdistan. The 25-year-old will return to Iraq, a country that is at war and has limited opportunities for women. (Erin McCracken/Evansville Courier & Press via AP)

    Labor vows to write off 100,000 Hecs student loans as Coalition disputes cost

  • Australia politics live with Katharine Murphy
    Bill Shorten decries budget 'hoax' in reply speech – as it happened

  • Bill Shorten's 2015 budget reply speech annotated: don't miss a single zinger

  • Bill Shorten decries budget 'hoax' and reveals investment vision

  • Brandis: arts initiative plus cuts to Australia Council will end 'monopoly'

  • Budget 2015: only one in six people feel they will be better off, poll shows

  • Australia politics live with Katharine Murphy
    Josh Frydenberg confirms wife used two parental leave schemes – politics live

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