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Articles on charter of budget honesty

September 24, 2020

Frydenberg is setting his budget ambition dangerously low

Brendan Coates, Grattan Institute and Matthew Cowgill, Grattan Institute

Easing off when the unemployment rate is 6% would leave us worse off than we’ve been in decades.

January 21, 2020

Danielle Wood, Grattan Institute; Nathan Blane, Grattan Institute, and Shelby So, Grattan Institute

Changes to the government’s targets in its budget update give it room to spend more.

December 17, 2018

Danielle Wood, Grattan Institute and Kate Griffiths, Grattan Institute

When assessed by the government’s own rules, MYEFO fails. The government is spending the latest revenue windfall even though it promised not to.

March 6, 2015

Graeme Wells, University of Tasmania

Forecasts released under the Charter of Budget Honesty are on the wrong time horizon and need greater transparency.

Danielle Wood
Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
Graeme Wells
University Associate, School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania
Kate Griffiths
Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute
Brendan Coates
Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
Matthew Cowgill
Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
Nathan Blane
Analyst, Grattan Institute
Shelby So
Researcher, Grattan Institute