How to blow a budget

By Letters to the Editor
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:03pm, first published June 5 2014 - 3:00am

This budget according to Andrew Barr, is for the ''vulnerable people''. So up go the rates for the vulnerable, an unwanted railway of value to few, capital expenditure beyond understanding that add to debt. When you factor in the poor history of fiscal management in ACT major projects, the proposed $614 million railway will no doubt blow out by hundreds of millions of dollars.

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