Published: December 20, 2018
Governments often use their final budgets to conceal spending but the $9.3bn Myefo sweetener is biggest in 15 years
The Morrison government’s $10bn pre-election budget “war chest” is the biggest in 15 years, two and a half times larger than the Howard government’s surprise cash splash on pensioners and retirees during the 2007 election campaign.
Analysis of every federal budget and mid-year budget update since 2003 (the most easily accessible data) shows Coalition and Labor governments have often used their final budgets in the months before an election to conceal spending decisions that they then announced during the election campaign.
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