The Coalition’s costings show some savings, but a larger deficit than Labor in the first two years
- Written by Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
The Coalition’s policy costings have been released, just two days ahead of the federal election.
The costings show the Coalition would run up a larger budget deficit than Labor in the first two years of government, but make a greater contribution to budget repair in years three and four.
This arises because two big-spending Coalition policies...
