Government running costs to reach record high as disability expenses mount

By Markus Mannheim
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:34pm, first published January 3 2015 - 7:50am

The Abbott government will become the most expensive to run on record, despite its catchphrase policy of "smaller government" and an austerity drive that will shed more than 16,500 public sector jobs.

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