NSW Election: Labor to deliver bigger surpluses

Tuesday 24 March 2015

The New South Wales Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has released its pre-election costings, which show that Labor’s policies would deliver bigger surpluses if it were elected to office this Saturday.

According to the PBO, Labor’s policies would deliver a surplus of $1,479 billion by 2017-18:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.