Selling the budget's 'stinking carcass'

By Stephen Bartos
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:01pm, first published June 2 2014 - 11:54am

The 2014 federal budget is by no means the toughest Australia has seen. Peter Costello's 1996 and 1997 budgets and several of Paul Keating's budgets in the late 1980s and early 1990s were tougher. Yet, according to not only opinion polls but also statements from the government's own backbenchers, this budget has not been well received, to say the least: Fairfax journalist Mark Kenny quotes one unnamed senior Liberal describing the budget as a ''stinking carcass hanging around the government's neck''.

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