Australian budget

NSW election campaign turns into a spendathon

Leith van Onselen
Tuesday, 19 February 2019
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By Leith van Onselen

With just over a month until the NSW Election, it’s raining pork. From The Australian:

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian [is] making more than $6 billion worth of promises in recurrent spending so far as she seeks to buy her way to a third term of ­Coalition government.
Labor has matched most of Ms Berejiklian’s promises, including $2.8bn for 5000 extra nurses pledged at the weekend…

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About the author
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.