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Australia is coming back: Frydenberg

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... May 2020, employment levels have more than recovered the losses seen through the pandemic to reach record highs," budget papers read.

Infrastructure investment builds to $170bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... government's total infrastructure expenditure commitments to $170 billion since 2013, according to figures contained in the budget papers. Nevertheless, it should act as incentive to encourage more infrastructure investment among institutional investors ...

Chief economist update: Money plus confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... of the USA (1809-1817) and Founding Father The Morrison government circulating more money which, according to the Budget Papers 2020-21, amounts to "$98 billion in response and recovery support, including $25 billion under the COVID-19 Response Package ...

Chief economist update: Government spending made money, saved money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... unemployment rate and future budget deficits. Spend and intervened the Morrison government did. According to the Budget Papers 2020-21, this amounts to: "$98 billion in response and recovery support, including $25 billion under the COVID-19 Response ...

Chief economist update: China keeps on going and going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
... positive implications for Australia's export earnings and the fiscal budget. The Federal Treasury's latest Budget Papers assumed ore prices at US$55/tonne. So far this year, it's averaged more than US$100/tonne. Australian Prime Minister ...

Chief economist update: It's looking up for the land down under

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... biggest commodity export - iron ore - one that's bound to reduce the budget deficit the Treasury forecast in the Budget Papers 2020/2021 and/or provide the Morrison administration more firepower just in case. The budget papers released last month ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore to reduce Aussie deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... (MYEFO) handed down in October, it maintained its assumption for iron ore prices to drop to US$55 per tonne. The Budget Papers also printed this sensitivity analysis: "If the iron ore price was to fall immediately to US$55 per tonne FOB, rather than ...

Chief economist update: Splish splash, budget cash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... There's mo' money for every sector of the economy - well, almost, as "winners and losers" (the mainstay of annual Budget reveals) pepper the headlines. Can't please everyone, ey? Budget 2020/21 winners will be singing hallelujah and losers ...

Super industry cautious on more reform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... executive Martin Fahy. "In the absence of the release of the Retirement Income Review and the lack of specificity in the Budget papers, it is unclear how the changes will work in practice or what the implications will be for competition, efficiency and ...

Chief economist update: More from Morrison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... fire for cutting funding to disaster response agencies. This has not been confirmed by examining the Commonwealth budget papers, but while looking for it, The Fifth Estate did note that the 2019-2020 budget reduced funding to National Parks, the Bureau ...