The treasurer referred to the A$13 billion “zombie” measures the Senate has failed to pass as a “Senate tax”, in justifying the tax increases in this budget.
Lukas Coch
The budget was extraordinary in many ways. It is an abandonment of restraint on taxes by a liberal government. It is nakedly populist and it also acknowledges that government debt can be productive.
The government’s budget documents are full of forecasts about where the economy is headed.
Lukas Coch/AAP
The reason for the constant struggle for funding between the states and federal government relates back to the constitution.
All of the increase in spending on social security and welfare is due to the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Dan Peled/AAP
If you look at past budgets, the proposed cuts in social security programs are disproportionate to the amount the government spends.
It’s become conventional wisdom that Australia has an infrastructure deficit – with remarkably little discussion of what that even means.
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