The Baird government recently announced a $4.7 billion budget surplus for 2015-16, more than a billion dollars above the estimate made in the 2016-17 budget just four months ago. It also revealed the state ended the year with no general government net debt. On the face of it, this kind of budget outcome is one any federal treasurer (or any other state treasurer, for that matter) would die for.
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