Frydenberg has spent big – but on the whole, responsibly
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

So good, and so unexpected, has been Australia’s economic improvement over the past three months, it has wiped one-third of the projected 2022-23 budget deficit. Or it would have, had the government not decided to give away almost half (45%) the windfall.
That’s one way of looking at the...