NSW election campaign turns into a spendathon
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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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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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