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View from The Hill: Frydenberg finds the money tree

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
View from The Hill: Frydenberg finds the money treeWes Mountain/The Conversation

Josh Frydenberg’s third budget aims to give Australia a post-pandemic soft landing, using revenue windfalls for spending and tax cuts rather than for slashing the deficit.

Its philosophy is very much gain, not pain, for a population that has endured the stress of the pandemic, albeit not the devastation...

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