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Beyond the spin, beyond the handouts, here’s how to get a handle on what’s really happening on budget night

  • Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Three weeks from now, some of us will be presented with a mountain of budget papers, and just about all of us will get to hear about them on radio, TV or news websites on budget night.

The quickest way to find out what the budget is really doing will be to listen to the treasurer’s speech, or to peruse online the aptly-named “glossy&rdqu...

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