Women have shouldered more of the burden of the pandemic : Albanese13/05/2021|5min
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese highlights the hardships women endure both during the pandemic but also in daily life such as the pay gap, domestic violence, and assault.
“It is women who have suffered more in terms of shouldering the burden of the lockdowns that have occurred, the education being transformed from something where children went to school to where home schooling became the norm, in terms of wages and wage restraint,” he said.
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Budget Reply: Labor Party offers start-up loans and new energy apprenticeships funding13/05/2021|2min
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese says Labor would offer start-up loans to students and new graduates and deliver a new energy apprenticeships program to train 10,000 young people - supporting them with up to $10,000 over the course of it. Start-up loans will be offered to students and new graduates with ventures attached to a tertiary institution or designated private accelerator. This will assist in the identification of opportunities for commercialisation of university research, Mr Albanese said. A Labor government will create a new energy apprenticeships program, to train 10,000 young people for the energy jobs of the future. This will support them with up to $10,000 over the course of their apprenticeship.
MICHELLE GRATTAN says the federal Budget aims to give Australia a post-pandemic soft landing, using revenue windfalls for spending and tax cuts rather than for slashing the deficit.
THE philosophy of Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s third budget is very much gain, not pain, for a population that has endured the stress of the pandemic, albeit not the devastation experienced by so many other countries.
Michelle Grattan
There are plenty of winners, and minimal direct losers in a Budget that lays the ground work for an election that is still expected next year rather than this.
Hard decisions have been eschewed. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is trying to avoid offending voters.
The budget is an undoubted success - but Australia’s quicker-than-expected recovery is papering over issues that have been put off for years, writes Steven Hamilton.
View from The Hill: Frydenberg finds the money tree
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Josh Frydenberg s third budget aims to give Australia a post-pandemic soft landing, using revenue windfalls for spending and tax cuts rather than for slashing the deficit.
Its philosophy is very much gain, not pain, for a population that has endured the stress of the pandemic, albeit not the devastation experienced by so many other countries.
There are plenty of winners, and minimal direct losers in a budget that lays the ground work for an election that is still expected next year rather than this.
Hard decisions have been eschewed. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is trying to avoid offending voters.