The Australian reports that Josh Frydenberg has repudiated calls for the government to provide further
fiscal stimulus to the economy, declaring it would put the government's surplus
at risk and represent a major misreading of the Reserve Bank's calls for action
to help boost growth.
The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
Victorian public schools are set to miss out on up to $5 billion because of an
"escape clause" in the recent funding deal inked between the state and the
Commonwealth. That's the finding of analysis by former Productivity Commission
economist and education researcher Trevor Cobbold, who has accused politicians
of using accounting tricks to reduce funding for public schools.
Almost all patrons at music festivals take illicit substances, with MDMA the
"drug of choice", an inquest into the deaths of six young people was told
yesterday. The coronial inquest heard that NSW Ministry of Health data indicated
up to 90 cent of young festival patrons used drugs.
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