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Government budget update saved by higher than expected economic figures

  • Written by: Saul Eslake, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania

The 2017-18 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) is another reminder - if one is needed - that the relationship between the budget and the economy runs in both directions. While we mostly ask the question, “how will the budget affect the economy?”, this update shows the economy can also have (and has often had) a significant...

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Budget update shaves growth and wage forecasts but is brighter about the deficit

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The 2017-18 budget update shows an improvement in the deficit forecast for this financial year but predicts lower economic growth and a smaller increase in wages than was expected in the May budget.

The deficit for 2017-18 is now expected to come in at A$23.6 billion, an improvement of A$5.8 billion from the May forecast, according to the Mid-Year...

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How painting escaped the canvas and another brush with death

  • Written by: Mark Titmarsh, Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Design, Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
imageKatharina Grosse Untitled Trumpet, 2015, All the World’s Futures, 56th Art Biennale, La Biennale di Venezia 09.05. - 02.11.2015 acrylic on wall, floor, and various objects, 660 x 2,100 x 1,300 cm / 259 3/4 x 826 3/4 x 511 3/4 in Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn Copyright: © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017

In January, German...

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Tide turned: surveys show the public has lost its appetite for shark culls

  • Written by: Christopher Neff, Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Sydney

A Senate Committee report on shark deterrent measures has, in the words of committee member Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, moved the “shark cull debate into the 21st century”.

The first recommendation of the inquiry is to “immediately replace lethal drum lines” with so-called SMART drum lines and to phase out shark nets.

Yet if...

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