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Leading article Australia

Mr Morrison’s budget gamble

12 May 2018

9:00 AM

12 May 2018

9:00 AM

A broken clock is right twice a day.  When it comes to accuracy and reliability, that’s infinitely better than federal Treasury revenue projections. Yet the Treasurer, Scott Morrison, has staked the Coalition’s future on Treasury predicting the government’s coffers will be awash with money that, as recently as late last year, was not even imagined.

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