Is Swan readying Abbott's alibi?

By Jack Waterford
Updated April 18 2018 - 10:30pm, first published May 5 2012 - 3:00am

There was a time when a federal budget announced the government's agenda for the year, and the years ahead. Next week's budget is instead the agenda itself - a very good example of how and why this government hardly ever seems able to get its politics right.

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