posted on 2024-11-13, 21:31authored byStephen Howes, Arusha Cooray, Ben Spies-Butcher, Cameron Gordon, Carol Johnson, Clive Bean, David Willis, Hal Swerissen, John Quiggin, Lin Crase, Matthew Bailes, Paul Burke, Simon Marginson, Stephen Duckett, Zareh Ghazarian
Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has handed down his sixth budget, facing an almost impossible task: how to reconcile an enormous revenue shortfall with big spending promises, all while keeping the voters happy in an election year?
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Howes, S., Cooray, A., Spies-Butcher, B., Gordon, C., Johnson, C., Bean, C., Willis, D., Swerissen, H., Quiggin, J., Crase, L., Bailes, M., Burke, P., Marginson, S., Duckett, S. & Ghazarian, Z. (2013). Federal budget 2013: expert reactions. The Conversation, 14 May 1-10.