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Budget restraint? When it comes to transport projects, it's hard to find

  • Written by Marion Terrill, Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute

“Restraint” – that’s what Treasurer Jim Chalmers claimed as the watchword of Tuesday’s federal budget. Perhaps the claim can be made in general, but when it comes to transport infrastructure, the budget is remarkable not for how different it is to budgets past, but how similar. It has left plenty of opportunities for...

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