Treasurer Scott Morrison explains the budget in the lock-up.AAP/Lukas CochScott Morrison has delivered a surprisingly big taxing budget that pays for the last burial rites of the 2014 toxic Abbott legacy.
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Treasurer Scott Morrison used to like to say Australia “doesn’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem”. It turns out this sentiment was true in 2016.
Now this year’s federal budget is a big-taxing, populist, and nakedly political one. It’s not all bad news, or even all bad policy, but it marks a break from...
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In contrast, the recent election campaign for the presidency of the AOC was dramatic viewing. For the first time in 27...
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