Analysis

Budget 2016: A pass mark but, as usual, the hard work's left for later

By Stephen Bartos
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:16pm, first published May 3 2016 - 8:39pm

Smokers and multinational tax avoiders will hate this budget; for most other people, there is little either particularly good or bad. For the economy, it was probably a net plus because it was different to almost every other pre-election budget: it lacked big splash cash handouts and dubious local community grants programs for marginal seats.

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