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Australia’s Gillard Gets Poll Bounce After Austere Budget

So who said pre-election budgets were for handouts? Very shortly after her treasurer released a remarkably austere budget, with bad news on the surplus front to boot, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard awoke to a robust 8-pointShow More Summary

What Is Abbott Really Up To?

Are Tony Abbott's basic economic errors a deliberate distraction from his conservative economic vision? Why aren't the Greens pushing for a broader tax base? Ian McAuley unpacks the Budget replies

Abbott Will Cut Deeper Than The ALP

Neither the ALP nor the Coalition are giving the voter who cares about social fairness — not just jobs and money — much to go on. Eva Cox on Tony Abbott's Budget reply

Last Week’s 10 Biggest Posts

Budget impact, new Google features, iTunes alternatives and chocolate milk were drawing in the crowds. Kick off your Monday by checking out the ten most popular posts from Lifehacker Australia last week: More »      

CBO: Obama Budget Adds $5.2 Trillion to Deficit, $1 Trillion in New Taxes

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says President Barack Obama’s 2014 budget would add $5.2 trillion in deficits over the next ten years and contains nearly $1 trillion in new taxes. The Obama budget, which was delivered two months...Show More Summary

Labor now swears it will cut spending like it never has before

Henry Ergas says Labor’s promise to return the Budget to surplus is three years is

Nielsen says Labor boosed by Budget, Newspoll no

I am surprised. A Budget like that gives Julia Gillard a boost - or was it her tears? The…

New paper from Otto et al and Nic lewis shows transient climate sensitivity less than 2C

This new paper just appeared on the Nature Geoscience journal website. I’m expecting a guest essay from Nic Lews at any moment which I’ll post. Energy budget constraints on climate response Alexander Otto, Friederike E. L. Otto, Olivier Boucher, John … Continue reading ?

Obama’s budget is another instance of lost credibility

It turns out that President Obama’s Office of Management and Budget is no more trustworthy than the rest of his administration. His budget, unsurprisingly to conservatives, is not “balanced” and does not deliver on its promise to cut $1.8 trillion … Continue reading ?

World Popular Resistance Clippings 19/5/2013

  Vendors seek to profit from China’s security budget BEIJING: Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and “anti-terrorism technology” trade fair in Beijing as vendors seek to profit from China’s huge internal security budget. The country is estimated to have more than 180,000 protests each year and the [...]

Budget Beauty Buys Under $10

If you’re ever looking for The Beauty Bug, chances are you’ll find Her at the nearest CVS, Walgreens or Wholefoods combing the beauty and skincare aisles for the latest and greatest. They don’t call Her the queen bee of the ExtraBucks for nothing. Here are Her latest favorite finds: Pacifica Color Quench Lip Tint – [...]

Illinois Library Embraces Crowdfunding To Bring Its Patrons A 3D Printer (And A Giant Hulk Statue)

Retooling the traditional public library for a more technically savvy populace is no small feat, especially when library budgets across the U.S. have been gutted these past few years. That sad state of events has forced some libraries to take matters into their own hands. Show More Summary

Washington Signals Dollar Deep Concerns

Quantitative Easing is the term given to the Federal Reserve's policy of printing 1,000 billion new dollars annually in order to finance the US budget deficit by purchasing US Treasury bonds and to keep the prices high of debt-related derivatives on the "banks too big to fail" (BTBF) balance sheets by purchasing mortgage-backed derivatives. Show More Summary

The Texas Tribune: With Consensus and Money, State Takes on Mental Health Care

As Republicans and Democrats in Texas House and Senate hash out the details of the state’s 2014-15 budget, one issue they are not arguing about is support for mental health.

Hope for Medicaid expansion in Michigan fades

Gov. Rick Snyder Michigan's Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, like his counterpart in Florida, Rick Scott, wants Medicaid expansion for his state. For these Republican governors, whose primary job is to create a balanced budget for the state, the Medicaid money available under Obamcare is a gift. Show More Summary

Labor no worse off after the Budget

Good news for Labor. A Budget that should have utterly destroyed its credibility actually leaves it no worse off: WAYNE Swan’s decision…

Tens of thousands march against budget cuts in Rome

CBO Shows $1 Trillion Tax Hike in Obama Budget

An analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office shows that President Obama's 2014 budget proposal would reduce borrowing by $1.1 trillion by 2023 thorough increasing taxes by nearly the same amount.

New Energy Secretary: Tackle Climate Change with Efficiency and Renewable Energy

The budget proposal for FY2014 would give Moniz a solid start in advancing the low-carbon economy, by increasing funding for renewable energy, advanced vehicle research and development, and energy efficiency programs.

TOP VETERANS' ADVOCATE: Obama's Budget Contains One Of The Most Galling Mistakes Of His Presidency

As a concession to Republican members of Congress who want to see meaningful entitlement reform President Barack Obama included in his budget the so-called Chained CPI, a cumbersome economic fix that will lead to thousands of dollars lost to Social Security beneficiaries. Show More Summary