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Like a high-wire act, Victoria's budget is a mix of hard work, luck and optical illusion

  • Written by Tom Crowley, Associate, Grattan Institute
Like a high-wire act, Victoria's budget is a mix of hard work, luck and optical illusionDavid Tadevosian/Shutterstock

Victoria’s budget shows a Treasurer engaged in a high-wire balancing act: ensuring a job-rich economic ‘soft landing’ on one hand, while trying to improve the state’s long-term fiscal position on the other.

The budget partly delivers on both goals but, like any difficult circus act, it is part...

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