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‘Terrible budget’: tax reforms accused of hiding deeper economic mismanagement
May 13, 2026
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The Australian Contributing Economics Editor Judith Sloan exposes flashy tax reforms for masking deeper economic problems and a failure to repair the federal Budget. “In many ways, I think all the tax changes and the details, and the complexities are kind of a diversion from what is in many ways a kind of really big picture, which is this is a terrible budget from a macro point of view,” Ms Sloan told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
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