New year, new strategy? Unheralded change to budget targets creates space for stimulus
- Written by Danielle Wood, Program Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform, Grattan Institute
In public, the government is crab-walking away from its commitment to a budget surplus, saying since the bushfires that other things have become more important.
Asked directly on Tuesday whether he was prepared to sacrifice this year’s projected surplus to help the bushfire recovery effort, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said:
Our focus is on...
