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Two ways to fund NSW election promises as property prices crash

  • Written by Gareth Bryant, Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Sydney
Two ways to fund NSW election promises as property prices crashPrevious NSW election promises were easily funded. Not so this time.Shutterstock

State elections are always about spending promises, but this time not much is being said about how they will be funded.

Last minute costings on individual announcements tend to rely on the general presumption that the state economy will keep growing and somehow produce...

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