The budget hands out $21 billion for 'regional Australia', but a quarter of it is going to a single project in Queensland
- Written by Stewart Lockie, Director, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
This years’s budget has offered up “unprecedented” funding for regional Australia, according to the Morrison government’s budget sell.
The headline figure is A$21 billion and is widely assumed to be part of the deal Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce made with Prime Minister Scott Morrison in exchange for backing the...
