budget 2008
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The St George/Westpac merger will have much longer lasting effects on the Australian economy than anything in last week's budget
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What did the Treasurer really do last night? On the whole, not very much, writes economist Barry Hughes
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This should have been the world's first climate change budget, writes Anna Rose
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If you were expecting the Treasurer to deliver a Keating or Costello-esque performance last night, you've missed the change to how the game is played, writes Mark Bahnisch
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Apart from some tinkering around the edges, Swan has failed to attack the many highly regressive tax benefits that were introduced by Peter Costello
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It's a far cry from a "revolution" but the budget has been good to education
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The tens of billions of infrastructure dollars promised in last night's Budget won't start flowing until the end of next year - just in time for the next election
