This budget will only work if business and consumers play ball
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
AAP/Mick TsikasThis is an extraordinary giveaway budget, driven by desperate circumstances that would have been inconceivable less than a year ago.
The debt and deficit numbers are predictably eye-watering - but the gamble is whether they are big enough.
The Morrison government is pleading.
In particular, it is begging business to chance its hand...
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