Budget views

There is heaps of commentary on the Budget on a myriad of different websites - a couple I found of interest are here, here and here. Rather than write my views about it in detail here, I’ll just reproduce a speech I made in the Senate today during a debate (of sorts) about the Budget. I won’t add more to it now, beyond saying that I think that a lot of the rhetoric about the Budget’s impact on wider economic factors like inflation and interest rates is mostly overblown. I was bit surprised/dis