8 - Of budgets and birthdays
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It’s Stephen’s birthday and it’s the budget! What a time to be the AICD Chief Economist.   Discussed in this episode: [1:01] May RBA decision)

[1:14] Copy-and-paste March decision)

[1:40] April RBA decision)

[1:45] April RBA minutes)

[2:53] AICD Director Sentiment Index)

[3:35] 2H16 Director Sentiment Index)

[5:31] NAB March Business Survey)

[6:03] Consumer confidence still subdued)

[6:32] Treasurer’s good/bad debt speech)

[6:37] Badgerys Creek airport)

[6:41] Inland rail)

[6:52] Company tax cut)

[6:59] Stephen on tax reform)

[7:52] South Australia renewables debate)

[8:35] Budget countdown)

[8:58] Treasurer’s flags housing package)

[9:29] Negative gearing changes ruled out)

[9:52] Retiree incentives to downsize)

[10:06] Salary sacrificing a deposit)

[10:21] Barbecue stoppers)

[10:53] AICD’s negative gearing position)

[11:43] Health and education good debt?)

[12:17] $50bn infra package)

[12:20] 2014 $50bn promise)

[12:48] Stephen on infrastructure debt)

[13:18] Snowy hydro plan)

[13:38] Sydney second airport history)

[14:15] 2014 proposed university cuts)

[14:26] Abbott’s Gonski unity ticket)

[14:33] Gonski double backflip)

[14:36] Turnbull questions Gonski)

[14:45] Gonski )Company Director )profile)

[14:57] Gonski 2.0)

[15:47] Higher education cuts)

[16:07] Gonski 1.0)

[16:23] Gonski and the forward estimates)

[16:28] More or less funding for schools?)

[16:51] 2.0 changes to status quo)

[17:10] Greens support)

[17:17] Private school cuts)

[17:38] Gonski 2.0 Labor strategy)

[18:29] ’Overfunded’ cuts consensus)

[19:10] i give a gonski campaign)

[19:34] Gonski and Turnbull schoolmates)

[21:14] Labor’s Mediscare campaign)

[21:31] PBS generics push)

[22:21] Medicare rebate freeze to be lifted?)

[22:48] Fairfax strike)

[23:33] Government bonds on issue)

[24:02] OECD government debt-to-gdb)

[24:45] Net operating vs net cash balance)

[25:07] Register for Stephen’s budget webinar)

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