"The question the Greens must answer is that when the hard reality of budgetary choice hits, will they prioritise public housing over the tram?" JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED dismantle the Greens public housing policy.
Jim Chalmers has been bitten by the giveaway bug in a budget that contains good news for almost everyone, writes STEPHEN BARTOS.
What the Reserve Bank thinks of Chalmers’ budget will be nearly as important as the voters’ opinion, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
"The policy of the government, driven by the Greens, is to build future Canberra totally within the current footprint. Madness!', writes political columnist MICHAEL MOORE.
"Canberra needs to see significant change in the ACT Assembly. With education and health that have moved from Australian leader to the bottom of the pile under Labor stewardship, it really is time for a change," writes MICHAEL MOORE.
Like the famous budget tree, Jim Chalmers can change the story to suit the season, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
"Nearly all the local campaigns are using social and digital media now, keeping their big spend free for when the campaign kicks… but this is where they have it wrong to a certain extent," writes political columnist ANDREW HUGHES.
Another wry look at the upcoming federal budget from cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Ministers Clare O'Neil and Andrew Giles are dodging the spotlight shining on blunders over ex-detainees, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
"It's difficult to justify the ACT's excess taxation when debt's rising, the hospital system is the country's poorest and services for disadvantaged groups are the nation's worst," write JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED.
“Rattenbury is caught between a rock and a hard place. As Gaming Minister he works within the constraints of a government. As Leader of the Greens, he is committed to gambling reform," writes political columnist MICHAEL MOORE.
Social media companies can’t be immune from the need for a social licence, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
"Depletion of cash, unbudgeted borrowings and an equity injection into a joint venture raise some tantalising questions that the government needs to answer." JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED look at another of the Budget Review's 'initiatives'.
"A good wedge gets voters off the fence. Voters become very much engaged and very much angry. Time to take that anger out at the ballot box," writes political columnist ANDREW HUGHES.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is to walk the Kokoda Track and engage in some jungle diplomacy, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Ethnic tensions will complicate the Albanese government’s multicultural policy reform, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.
"Witnesses must tell the truth and that giving false or misleading evidence… may be considered a contempt of the Assembly.” Did Andrew Barr mislead the Public Accounts Committee? He got his history wrong, say JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED.
"Recruitment has been the base on which the rebranding argument has been built. It is a pretty shallow base. The key to recruitment is to have high morale," writes MICHAEL MOORE, a former ACT Health Minister.
The Albanese government can’t be accused of excessive caution any longer, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
