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Budget 2017: politically clever, but…

10 May 2017

7:38 AM

10 May 2017

7:38 AM

I’ve been lamenting that for too long we’ve had no sensible centre in Australian politics, effectively ceding the political debate to the fringe Right and loony Left.  Labor under Bill Shorten has skipped merrily down the populist path, and the Coalition post-Tony Abbott has lost its mojo, direction and value compass.

With this budget it’s possible to say that signs of centrist life have at last been detected. 

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