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Balancing the budget mantra overlooks benefits of infrastructure spending

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imagePoliticians may like to cut ribbons, but there's also good evidence public spending on infrastructure drives productivity.Image sourced from Shutterstock.com

When the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) recently released its recommendations on how the government should balance the budget, it prefaced it with the statement...

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