Joe Hockey looking in the wrong place for a budget fix

By Richard Denniss
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:19pm, first published January 16 2015 - 2:24pm

There's an old joke about a drunk looking for his keys under a lamp post on a dark night. After stopping to help, a passer-by asks whether the drunk is sure he dropped them under the lamp post. "No mate," replied the drunk. "I dropped them on the other side of the road, but there is no light over there."

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