Treasury warns the government it may not balance the budget or meet its housing targets
- Written by John Hawkins, Head, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
Kokkai Ng/GettyIn the runup to each election, federal treasury produces a “blue book” and a “red book”, with advice tailored to the priorities of the two alternative governments.
One of these is given to the incoming government and the other is never released. Freedom of Information requests have generally resulted in only he...
