Alarm bells should ring when treasurers resort to hyperbole to describe their budget achievements. With Paul Keating in the late 1980s it was ‘bringing home the bacon’ — not long before the economy went into recession and the budget into large deficits. Now we have the New South Wales treasurer Dominic Perrottet trumpeting his 2017-18 budget as ‘the envy of the western world’.
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