Too many critical areas have been ignored
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May 13, 2021 12.02am
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THE BUDGET
Too many critical areas have been ignored
This budget has produced the biggest deficit since World War II and the largest national debt ever. But it is a disappointing budget. The government ignored (again) the need for new quarantine facilities, did little for the environment, and our existential climate crisis, and nothing for the ABC or our struggling universities, both of which have had to retrench hundreds and thousands of staff (respectively).