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The budget is out and Treasurer Scott Morrison has started the job of selling it. Look back on the budget announcement as it was unveiled.
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Here's what you did (and didn't) like about the budget
Treasurer Scott Morrison unveiled the budget last night and there were quite a few gifts for voters. We asked our Messenger audience what they thought of it all and here's what they had to say.
Budget surplus plan locks in high immigration
The reliance on near-record levels of immigration to sustain the economy at a pace that can pay for tax cuts and a budget surplus is illustrative of the precarious nature of Treasury's path to a meaningful 1 per cent of GDP surplus.
Who feels the pain?
You know when your primary revenue target is illegal tobacco hawkers that this is going to be a pirate-fightin' affair.
Turnbull's biggest challenge
Peter Costello's theory for economic battle came in three chapters — do the hard stuff in the first year, bed it down in the second and fight like buggery in the third, writes Andrew Probyn.
