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Saul EslakeThe Conversation |
Little in the budget update will reassure rating agencies the Allan government is prepared to do what needs to be done to alleviate Victoria’s...
The unfortunate reality is that neither party has any kind of mandate to do what needs to be done to put the state’s finances on more sustainable...
Revisiting the GST share of revenue among the states could make a big contribution towards repairing the federal budget.
Ratings agencies assume the federal government stands behind the states’ debts, so if Victoria is downgraded because of its ballooning debt that has...
Now that Labor has achieved a swing towards it – for the first time in Australia’s history – it should, ideally, act like a first-term government.
Unless it can substantially improve its productivity performance, Victoria will continue to be the butt of sneering from richer states.
I don’t suffer from what some of President Donald Trump’s more fervent supporters – both in the US and in Australia – like to call “Trump...
State and federal oppositions will draw encouragement from the byelection result. But neither has shown voters a coherent and credible budget and...
No wonder the Western Australian state government left it until Christmas Eve to release its Mid-Year Budget Update (officially titled Mid-Year...