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Budget explainer: does Australia really have an infrastructure deficit?

  • Written by The Conversation

While it has become conventionalwisdom that Australia has an infrastructure deficit, there is remarkably little shared understanding of what that means.

Does it mean that today’s infrastructure is substandard, or is that we’re not equipped for tomorrow’s infrastructure needs? And how do we even know what we really need, as opposed...

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