We have watched this movie before. The 2016-17 Budget is yet another budget projecting a gradual decline in government debt as a share of national output (Gross Domestic Product) over the next decade, from 18.9% of GDP today to 9.1% of GDP in 2026-27.
This is fanciful on the basis of recent budgets, which have failed spectacularly at achieving debt...
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Treasurer Scott Morrison insisted this is 'not an ordinary budget', but a 'plan'.AAP/Lukas CochWho among us, watching Joe Hockey deliver his “lifters and leaners” budget speech just one year, 11 months and 21 days ago, would have thought that this first-term Coalition government would so proudly hand down a budget so light on ideology?
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Mounting public debt has sucked infrastructure spending capacity from the nation’s public balance sheets. The federal government proposes a new way forward, called “City Deals”. But the budget papers contain no further details, which is disappointing.
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