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Andrew Clark

Chalmers’ latest effort basks in a green glow

Sit back and behold Jim Chalmers’ big green Australian budget. But making forecasts is easy, and will voters buy the story?

We’ve had “Spend, Spend” budgets, “Cigs, Grog Up” budgets, “Election” budgets, “Hit the Brakes” budgets and “Horror” budgets.

After delivering a cracker version of the latter, Arthur Fadden, treasurer in the Menzies Coalition government, declared he could have a meeting with all his friends in a telephone box.

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Andrew Clark was a senior writer at The Australian Financial Review.

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