While Treasurer Jim Chalmers has indicated that the government will unveil large savings in the upcoming Budget, most of those will probably be used to finance higher spending. The key point though is that with Commonwealth expenses rising by 10% in the first nine months of the current financial year, a slowdown in spending growth looks inevitable regardless of what’s announced in the Budget.
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