Winners and losers: Budget 2014

Well, the Budget has been handed down, and as expected, families, low income earners, health and education were the big losers. Mining, infrastructure, defence and medical research is sitting pretty, though. Here’s the verdict from the Twitterverse…   Continue Reading →

Commission of Audit report: Australians weigh in

Twitter nearly broke today when the much-anticipated Commissioner of Audit report was released. Unfortunately there’s not much to celebrate for families, pensioners, the disadvantaged, students and the sick. Big business has more reason to smile, though.  Continue Reading →

A question of numbers

These next few weeks are all about numbers. And with the biggest number cruncher, the May Budget, only a fortnight away, there has been plenty of speculation about what Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s cost-cutting government is going to deliver.  Continue Reading →

New CEO for Congress

The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples today announced the appointment of Geoff Scott as chief executive officer until June 2014. Continue Reading →