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National affairs The budget: mostly normal, partly unreal Tim Colebatch 13 May 2015 It’s the kind of budget Australian governments release when things aren’t going so well, writes Tim Colebatch. But its shaky assumptions could easily rebound… National affairs The budget’s not-so-simple impact on families Daniel Nethery 12 May 2015 Tonight’s federal budget will formalise the government’s backdown on indexation of pensions but preserve the impact of lower indexation for many families, writes…