Labor's budget reply goes big on aged care, similar on much else
- Written by Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
In most years, the opposition leader’s budget reply passes virtually unnoticed.
By convention, it is delivered two days after the budget.
It’s different when an election is imminent. Then it becomes a statement of priorities about what the opposition would do differently if it wins government.
There is hardly ever a difference between...