Budget Act’s Expected To Die

A new Parliament is expected to quickly repeal a law that would freeze cabinet pay and departmental operating budgets in case of a deficit. Cabinet has said it will run in the red in 2016 following previous Conservative claims of a paper-thin $1.4 billion surplus this year: ‘If Keynesian economics worked we wouldn’t have any debt right now’.

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