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The surplus disease
13 minutes Posted Oct 31, 2019 at 6:00 pm.
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The Morrison government is committed to a budget surplus above all else. But as Paul Keating points out, this commitment can be a kind of sickness. Paul Bongiorno on what happens when politics refuses to acknowledge circumstances.

Guest: Columnist for The Saturday Paper Paul Bongiorno.

Background reading:

The Coalition's surplus focus in The Saturday Paper.

The Saturday Paper

The Monthly

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