Labor's costings broadly check out. The days of black holes are behind us, thankfully
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Is there a “big black hole” in Labor’s election costings? It’s unlikely.
The final campaign before the arrival of the Parliamentary Budget Office in 2012, the 2010 Gillard versus Abbott contest, was full them.
Abbott was in opposition, Joe Hockey was his treasury spokesman. A treasury analysis of the costings document he...