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This page carries links to a range of places which carry comment on this years budget. These usually remain available throughout the year. At this time of year the major newspapers carry great coverage on the budget. Teachers can easily keep these articles for use with students later in term three. It is advisable to grab them now as papers may remove these resources from their web sites.
Make sure you scroll down and see all the resources.
Lost and Bewildered ? Try the Parliamentary libraries excellent commentary on the Budget. This is the background briefing given to our politicians. If they can understand, you don't have any problems !
- Monthly Economic and Social Indicators (MESI) Index
- ABC Online News - Budget 2000
- Aunty does it again great source of news on the Budget 2000. Check The 7.30 Report
- Lateline. Australian Broadcasting Corp.
- The AGE The Age - Budget
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- SMH.com.au - Budget Night 2000
- - smh.com.au - Federal Budget 2000
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- The Australian Financial Review Website
- AFR Budget 2000 index
- Growth to power ahead
- High hopes receive low response
- Budget scrutiny as $A falls
- BUSINESS COMMENTS These business consulting firms provide accesible pdf's on the budget.
- Deloitte Touche Tohmatsut
- PricewaterhouseCoopers: Australia: Home
- PWC Australian Federal Budget 2000
- Ernst & Young Australia Federal Budget Brief
- Paterson Ord Minnett Budget Response
- Baillieu news reports
- Merrill Lynch Research - Overview Global Economic Trends pdf
- CPA OnlineMedia Releases Frameset CPA Budget
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- HIGHLIGHTS
- $2.8bn cash surplus
$562m regional health package
$501m Fuels Sales Grants Scheme
$309m Agriculture - Advancing Australia
$240m Stronger Families and Communities Srategy
- $100m more for Defence
$32m for Vietnam veterans
$100m in new funding for East Timor
Economic forecasts
2000-1
Real GDP 3.75%
Employment 2.25%
- Unemployment 6.25%
Average wages 4.25%
Ongoing inflation 2.5%
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- ABC News - 08/05/00 : Treasurer promises to l...
- The Age: Budget overlooks small business
- The Age: Budget show is a repeat episode
- The Age: Budget moves on blood and military
- The Age: Moore confirms army spending
- $5.6 billion swipe at Budget - smh.com.au...
- AFR Markets Budget likely to lack visionont>
- AFR Markets- Falling US jobless puts more pressure on the Fedont>
- AFR Markets Chance of 25-point rise becomes less than 50-50ont>
- AFR News Costello's Budget goes bushont>
- AFR Update Budget finalised but last minute requests come in>
- AFR Update Nationals warn government on budget>
- AFR Update Business conditions deteriorate further in April, NAB survey>
- AFR Updat Costello says Budget will be honest>
- AFR Update$A down more than half a US cent at close on soft data>
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- The Age: Employers call for Budget tax breaks
- Taxpayers want good management, not big spending: Costello
- 'No ABN' earns Costello's black mark - Budget structure under fire
- Honey, I shrank the $10bn surplus - smh.com.au
- Treasurer slips on a banana republic peel
- Economists cite pain in GST gain
- BT Online - Aussie Budget targets well being
- How the Government is struggling to manage the economy
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- Australian Department of Finance and Administration (DOFA)
- Commonwealth Budget Group
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- The budget whip around. How did various interest groups react ? The what's in it for me list of links ?
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- BankWest - Financial Markets Update
- ANZ Headline News
- Commonwealth Bank Today Economic Briefs
- Colonial Limited: Economic Reports
- Budget Reports Previews from Westpac
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- The Australian Democrats
- Australian Labor Party
- The Liberal Party of Australia
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- LaborNet Home Page
- Welcome to the ACTU
- Welcome to the Brotherhood of St Laurence
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- Welcome to the ACOSS Website
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- Choice - Home Page Australian Consumers Association
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- Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI)
- Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI)
- Australian Business Home Page
- Business Council of Australia Web Page
- The Business Centre:Telstra
- National Business Bulletin - Home Page
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- Australian Real Estate Online [property.com.au]
- Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV)
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- National Farmers Federation
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- CEDA
- Australian Financial Markets Association
- The New Australian news magazine
- News Weekly
- Conservative view of the Budget
- Australian Building News
- Access Economics Home Page
- See also Telstra's Business Centre
- Employers' Federation General Information Page
- Australian Conservation Foundation
- Australian Medical Association Home Page
- Australia - your centre for global financial services in the Asia-Pacific
- TOURISM COUNCIL AUSTRALIA - HOME
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