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Labor will not commit to raising the JobSeeker payment of $44 a day, backing down on a promise it made in 2019 to review it. Isaac Nellist reports on the response.

The idea that education is a public good and should be fairly funded and free is long gone.

Free childcare would generate $48billion per year, 255,000 full time jobs in the sector & free up the equivalent of 850,000 ft workers.

Scott Morrison’s government takes credit for job creation, but experts say the increase is driven largely by population growth

Proponents of Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights designed the constitutional amendment to curb government’s voracious appetite for more spending.

As is always the case, there was plenty of money for corporate welfare and war but peanuts for social justice and the environment in this year's budget, write Peter Boyle.

Proponents of Colorados TABOR designed the constitutional amendment to curb governments voracious appetite for more spending.

Proponents of Colorados TABOR designed the constitutional amendment to curb governments voracious appetite for more spending.

As is always the case, there was plenty of money for corporate welfare and war but peanuts for social justice and the environment in this year's budget, write Peter Boyle.

The Morrison Government has tabled its budget for the 2022-23 financial year. In this briefing paper, the Centre for Future Work's team of economists unpacks the budget, considers its effects and suggests alternatives.