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The Guardian • Adam Morton • March 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Budget papers show Morrison government plans to cut climate spending if it wins election
Reduction in spending across clean energy agencies represents a 35% annual cut over four years
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin, Nick Evershed, Josh Nicholas • March 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Budget 2022: analysis reveals Morrison government funnelling billions into must-win marginal seats
Just one-third of Coalition’s $16bn spending spree has been endorsed by Infrastructure Australia
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus, Michael McGowan • March 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
NSW government approves just 377 grants for flood-hit business, despite receiving 8,000 applications
Almost 660 applications have been rejected, while nearly 2,900 have yet to determined by Resilience NSW
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Brisbane Times • Matt Dennien • March 29, 2022 • brisbanetimes.com.au
Dutton flood funds flow to unregistered group with links to office
Applications for money from the GoFundMe launched amid recent Brisbane floods are now behind a password-protected section of the Defence Minister’s LNP-branded website.
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Matt Dennien@mattdennien
New from me: The Defence Minister has named a small community group with links to his office as the beneficiary/distributor of $28,962 raised by an electorate flood support GoFundMe, despite not being listed w the national charity or business registers. brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queen…
March 29, 2022
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • March 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
At this gravest of times the Coalition has served up an election budget designed simply to keep itself in power
If we move from Josh Frydenberg’s rhetoric to content, we discover this isn’t a serious plan for the future. This is a plan for the next few months
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Peter Hartcher • March 29, 2022 • smh.com.au
The Tinker Bell budget: Clap if you believe it makes sense
Clap if you believe the sudden outpouring of $8.6 billion in one-off handouts has absolutely nothing to do with the imminent federal election.
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The Guardian • Greg Jericho • March 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Federal budget 2022: six graphs that reveal the sugar-hit election strategy
The Coalition has served up spoonfuls of sugar aimed at re-election rather than bother with anything as tawdry as economic growth
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news.com.au • Samantha Maiden • March 29, 2022 • news.com.au
Whopping payout for minister’s ex-mistress
The Morrison Government is finalising a six figure financial settlement with the ex-lover of Liberal frontbencher Alan Tudge, despite an investigation into the affair clearing him of breaching any ministerial guidelines.
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The Guardian • Sarah Martin • March 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Federal budget 2022: Josh Frydenberg promises cash splash for households with billions on offer
Extra tax cut for 10 million low and middle income workers worth up to $420 – while fuel excise will be slashed for next six months
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The Guardian • Josh Butler, Sarah Martin • March 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scott Morrison labelled an ‘autocrat and bully who has no moral compass’ by Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells
Senator, who has been relegated to an unwinnable spot on the Liberal party’s NSW upper house ticket, says in parliament ‘the fish stinks from the head’
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Ross Gittins • March 29, 2022 • smh.com.au
Sleight of hand: Frydenberg’s disappearing cash trick
When you read the budget fine print you discover that what the Treasurer gives with one hand, he takes away with the other.
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Mike Carlton@MikeCarlton01
Ross Gittins cuts through, as ever. smh.com.au/politics/feder…
March 29, 2022
ABC News • Georgia Hitch • March 29, 2022 • abc.net.au
Who are the winners and losers in the latest budget?
With a federal election only a couple of months away, find out who's getting a cash boost — and who's not — in Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's latest budget.
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ABC News • Laura Tingle • March 29, 2022 • abc.net.au
The government's tried to camouflage it, but there's a glaring problem with this budget
Josh Frydenberg can rightly celebrate the way the economy has roared back into life, but it is hard to think of a recent federal budget where the largesse has been so transitory and the outlook so full of potentially bad news, writes Laura Tingle.
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Laura Tingle@latingle
Will you be better off after the budget? Maybe, but will it last? abc.net.au/news/2022-03-2…
March 29, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Shane Wright, Katina Curtis • March 29, 2022 • smh.com.au
Veteran Liberal MP calls for bipartisan support of National Archives
Tony Smith, in one of his last addresses, has called on politicians to unite in supporting ongoing funding for the National Archives.
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Michelle Arrow@MichelleArrow1
‘Additional funding [...] should be seen as an investment in our nation because serious and proud democracies should not treat the preservation of, and access to, their history in an ad hoc way’. Tony Smith calls for more funding for National Archives: smh.com.au/politics/feder…
March 29, 2022
The New Daily • Michael Pascoe • March 29, 2022 • thenewdaily.com.au
Michael Pascoe: Morrison gone, Frydenberg trying to save the furniture
Scott Morrison is gone. Anthony Albanese will win the election. Josh Frydenberg is fighting to save some of the furniture. There, it’s been said.
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Michael Pascoe@MichaelPascoe01
Michael Pascoe: Morrison is gone - the "liar" tag has stuck to him the way “untrustworthy” stuck to Shorten three years ago.
And Frydenberg is being utterly cynical in trying to save furniture. Such is his integrity and fiscal credibility | The New Daily thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2022/0…
March 29, 2022
The Guardian • Tory Shepherd, Christopher Knaus, Josh Butler, Daniel Hurst, Paul Karp • March 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Treasurer delivers budget speech – as it happened
This blog is now closed
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Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
It's budget night, the embargo has lifted, tune in with @ToryShepherd for all the developments – live theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol
March 29, 2022
The Guardian • Ben Doherty • March 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
‘A nightmare’: Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s 804 days as a victim of Iran’s hostage diplomacy
Two years after the British-Australian academic was released from Tehran’s Evin prison, she remains marked by her ordeal and anxious that western governments have no better strategies to respond to Iran’s ‘blackmail’
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Ben Doherty@BenDohertyCorro
"I can't forget my friends there and forget the horrible stories I heard and the things I’ve seen," @KMooreGilbert says. “I have to use my voice to speak out.” theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
March 29, 2022
InQueensland • March 29, 2022 • inqld.com.au
Away from the big smoke, under the radar - watch these independents on election night
Everyone is looking at the metropolitan seats with strong independent candidates. Dennis Atkins thinks there are some out-of-town contests worth watching, including one in Queensland that might surprise.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Jacqueline Maley • March 29, 2022 • smh.com.au
Stick-with-me-baby budget powered by big bowser energy, and lots of sugar
While Scott Morrison repeatedly says Australians want government out of their lives, he is not brave enough to take his leave. Not so close to an election.
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Stephanie Peatling@srpeatling
"The result is a budget with a strong carpe diem vibe, a stick-with-me-baby budget powered by Big Bowser Energy, with future deficit numbers so dazzlingly big they can't possibly be real," writes @JacquelineMaley.
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
March 29, 2022
The Guardian • Michael McGowan • March 29, 2022 • theguardian.com
Disillusionment grows within Labor about the party’s commitment to cultural diversity
Just months after Labor committed to increase cultural diversity, it is set to bypass three people of colour in the seat of Parramatta
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