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The day after the budget is arguably more important than budget day itself.
With the set-piece stuff out of the way, there is more space to consider and digest the commitments and the context.
The Conversation spent yesterday working with academics to bring you expertise right across the budget.
This answers some important questions you may already have, such as, is the budget as “women friendly” as the government wants you to think?
Are the billions of dollars flowing to aged care, mental health and domestic violence prevention going to make a genuine difference?
We have also been able to look at some less prominent, but extremely critical parts of the budget papers. This includes the arts, the childcare workforce and the quality of the soil that underpins our lives.
Meanwhile, chief political correspondent Michelle Grattan has been following the politics of the budget sell. In her latest podcast, she speaks to Finance Minister Simon Birmingham and shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers.
Also, we’re nine days into our 2021 donations campaign and so far 5,400 readers have given. A big thank you to all those generous people who have supported our independent journalism. If you have’t donated yet, and would like to, you can do so here.
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Judith Ireland
Deputy Editor, Politics + Society
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Elizabeth Hill, University of Sydney
Is the budget really as "women friendly" as the Morrison government would like us to believe?
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Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University; Silke Meyer, Monash University
A key part pf the budget's focus on women was a funding boost to help stop domestic violence.
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Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute; Anika Stobart, Grattan Institute
An extra A$17.7 billion for aged care seems like a lot, but it still falls short of the royal commission's recommendations.
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Anthony Jorm, The University of Melbourne
The federal budget's A$2.3 billion for mental health may well make it easier to access services. But there's no guarantee this will translate to improved mental health in Australia — here's why.
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C Raina MacIntyre, UNSW
Will new guidelines on how to protect front-line workers acknowledge the coronavirus can spread via the air we breathe? It's time they did.
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Caley’s grevillea (Grevillea caleyi) occurs in Sydney. It needs fire to germinate but burns are hard to carry out near urban areas.
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Jennifer Silcock, The University of Queensland; Jaana Dielenberg, Charles Darwin University; Roderick John Fensham, The University of Queensland; Teghan Collingwood, The University of Queensland
Many threatened plant species aren't being targeted for conservation. Identifying which are closest to being lost forever is the first step to protect them.
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Gregory Mowle, University of Canberra
As an ex-financial counsellor and former consumer credit educator for ASIC, here are the questions I'd encourage you to ask yourself to help you decide how much to spend on a home renovation.
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Politics + Society
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Tristan Dunning, The University of Queensland; Martin Kear, University of Sydney
One of main drivers of unrest has been the conflicting claims to East Jerusalem, dating back to the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948.
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Julia Bergin, The University of Melbourne
Over half of the 50 nations in the International Federation of Journalists survey said coverage of China had become more positive in their national media since the onset of the pandemic.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
A Labor government would provide support for aspiring young entrepreneurs to spend a business-focused year working with a university or private sector incubator to develop their startup enterprise or idea.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan discusses the 2021-22 budget with Finance Minister Simon Birmingham and Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
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Environment + Energy
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Isabel Castro, Massey University
Kiwi are often moved between fragmented populations to limit inbreeding, but without sufficient genetic screening, this risks doing more harm than good.
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Vanessa Wong, Monash University; Luke Mosley
Soil underpins Australia's economy – yet since Europeans arrived, the natural asset has steadily been degraded. A new national plan aims to change that.
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Cities
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Lois Towart, University of Technology Sydney; Kristian Ruming, Macquarie University
Low-income retirees have long found affordable housing in caravan parks and relocatable home estates. But they are becoming harder to find, and often come with a risk of hazards such as flooding.
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Science + Technology
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Marek Kowalkiewicz, Queensland University of Technology
We need a tenfold increase in the digital economy budget spending for Australia to become a leading digital economy.
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Education
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Jing Qi, RMIT University
Once seen as mainly as a source of international students, China has for a decade been strategically repositioning itself as a provider of international education.
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Tamara Cumming, Charles Sturt University; Laura McFarland, Charles Sturt University; Rebecca Bull, Macquarie University; Sandie Wong, Macquarie University
If the government really wants to invest in early childhood education, it needs to back the workforce.
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Arts + Culture
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Knox Peden, The University of Queensland
In this influential novel, two Persians travel to Paris and report their bemusement at its customs. Questions such as the dilemmas of tolerance and the social nature of our identities are explored.
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Jo Caust, The University of Melbourne
The government needs to address the whole ecosystem of the arts, increasing funding to the Australia Council so individual artists and small organisations get adequate support.
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Health + Medicine
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Catherine Bennett, Deakin University
You only have to prevent one case, which could have otherwise led to community spread and lockdown, for such a scheme to pay for itself many times over.
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