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Politics podcast: Mathias Cormann and Anna Bligh on the new bank tax

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Despite the hefty tax imposts in Tuesday’s budget, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann still insists the fiscal problem was a spending rather than a revenue one.

Cornman says the problem was clearly “on the spending side”, but while the government had made significant progress it couldn’t get all the savings measures...

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