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Budget explainer: the structural deficit and what it means

  • Written by The Conversation
imageThe ageing of Australia contributes to its structural deficit.Flickr/Jonas Boni, CC BY

In the lead-up to the federal budget there is the inevitable attention given to government spending and debt. But one of the increasingly pressing problems that Australia faces gets a lot less attention than it should. And that is its structural deficit.

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