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Frydenberg has spent big – but on the whole, responsibly

  • Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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So good, and so unexpected, has been Australia’s economic improvement over the past three months, it has wiped one-third of the projected 2022-23 budget deficit. Or it would have, had the government not decided to give away almost half (45%) the windfall.

That’s one way of looking at the...

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