COMPLETELY SPENT
Crikey, in our late-night edition, explaining that:
The Coalition has publicly junked its “small government” furphy with deficits to eclipse $100 billion for the next two years, despite unemployment being expected to fall below 5%, and to exceed $50 billion in 2024-25, “making this the first budget in history designed to buy two elections in a row”
Aged care will receive $17.7 billion over four years, including plans for 80,000 new home care packages, $3.9 billion to meet long-standing demands for staffing ratios in residential care; and $3.2 billion to increase the Government Basic Daily Fee per resident paid to residential providers by $10 a day