What Bloxham, Masters and Ong say will be in the budget
The federal government is expected to tread carefully when it hands down the budget next month and use any surplus to tackle the cost of living crisis via energy, child care, and rent subsidies, without jeopardising the Reserve Bank of Australia’s path to cutting interest rates.
That’s according to The Australian Financial Review’s survey of economists who are expecting to see a second consecutive budget surplus, albeit smaller than last year because of weaker iron ore prices.
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