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Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor is on the ABC Insiders panel this morning and has wasted no time pointing out the tension at the heart of Labor’s October budget.
I think the rhetoric now seems to have shifted to Jim Chalmers wanting to have an ‘adult conversation’. That really interests me. If he wants to have an adult conversation about the gap we want to pay in social services and the revenue we raise between October and next May’s Budget, that’s – I think it is a laudable aim.
I think it is what we do need to do, but it is a hard thing to do, I think particularly since we haven’t done so well on adult conversations on these things.
Continue reading…Residents in Victoria’s north told to move to higher ground; federal government to set aside $9.6bn for new road and rail projects. Follow liveFlemington racetrack wall had ‘unintended’ flood consequencesCSIRO abruptly scraps globally recognised climate forecast programGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastGuardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor is on the ABC Insiders panel this morning and has wasted no time pointing out the tension at the heart of Labor’s October budget.I think the rhetoric now seems to have shifted to Jim Chalmers wanting to have an ‘adult conversation’. That really interests me. If he wants to have an adult conversation about the gap we want to pay in social services and the revenue we raise between October and next May’s Budget, that’s – I think it is a laudable aim.I think it is what we do need to do, but it is a hard thing to do, I think particularly since we haven’t done so well on adult conversations on these things. Continue reading…