Ponzi Pallas turns infrastructure gun on Scummo

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By Leith van Onselen

A day after Prime Minister Scott Morrison insulted Victorians with a piss weak $140m of “congestion busting” funding, Victorian Treasurer Tim “Ponzi” Pallas has declared today’s federal population meeting a “sham” and demanded billions of dollars in funding from the federal government to cope with unrelenting immigration-driven population growth. From The Age:

“The minority Morrison government’s population agenda is a sham – you can’t slash funding to Victorian schools and hospitals and short-change infrastructure funding and have a meaningful conversation about population”…

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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.