This year's surplus will be bigger than the $4.2 billion projected at budget time: Chalmers
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The surplus for the financial year that ends Friday will be larger than the $4.2 billion forecast in the budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will say on Wednesday.
In a speech to be delivered in Darwin, Chalmers says the government had been “deliberately cautious” in its estimate in the budget, “given the history”. This was a...
