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Frydenberg’s Budget is a spendathon, but is it any good?

1 April 2022

9:00 AM

1 April 2022

9:00 AM

The government’s much-anticipated 2022-23 Budget contains the usual set of massive spending programs characteristic of an election year.

Many of these are warranted and arguably long overdue – such as the nearly $10 billion set aside to increase intelligence and cybersecurity capabilities (though this will only be realised over the course of a decade).

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