Let’s start with the AFR which always demands reform but then attacks it when it comes:
Bill Shorten’s spending spree has topped $60 billion in the election campaign and is set to rise further, putting Labor on track to lift federal spending as a share of the economy to nearly as much as the Rudd government’s financial crisis-era stimulus.
Under a Shorten Labor government, The Australian Financial Review projects that ultimately, besides the 2008-09 crisis spending, payments-to-GDP would only have been higher during Paul Keating’s 1990s “recession we had to have” and in 1986 when the then-treasurer warned Australia risked being a “banana republic”.
