whatever you do, don’t fuel inflation
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Wes Mountain/The Cartoon, CC BY-NDTerrified by the prospect of further stoking the worst inflation in three decades, Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher have delivered a budget that takes out of the economy about as much as it pumps into it.
In the March 2022-23 budget, delivered ahead of the May election, the Coalition gave...
