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The vertical fiscal imbalances plaguing the federation has reared its ugly head again, with Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, writing to Prime Minister Scott Morrison demanding billions of dollars in funding from the federal government to cope with unrelenting immigration-driven population growth. From The SMH:
In a letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, ahead of a Council of Australian Governments meeting on population on Wednesday, Mr Andrews says discussing population growth in Victoria is “meaningless” without a Commonwealth commitment to properly fund required infrastructure.
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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.
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