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Budget explainer: has there been a blowout in social security and welfare spending?

  • Written by Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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For some time, the largest single component of federal government spending has been social security and welfare. In the last federal budget it made up an estimated 35.2% of total expenses and this was projected to rise to 37.5% by 2019-20. Given this, it’s not surprising that it’s also has been a prominent target for expenditure cuts.

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