We estimate that Labor’s plans to tighten fiscal policy would dampen consumer spending by around 0.3 percentage points in both 2019 and 2020, shaving 0.2 percentage points off GDP in each of those years. Meanwhile, its proposals for a number of regulatory changes could worsen the investment climate and dampen business confidence, but we think their impact on economic growth would be small.
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