Unlike the US’s Congressional Budget Office, Australia’s Parliamentary Budget Office does not provide analysis on the real-world impacts of policy
This week, Guardian journalist Ben Jacobs was assaulted by Republican congressional candidate (now congressman) Greg Gianforte after Jacobs asked him about the Congressional Budget Office’s report on the Republican party’s healthcare plan. Such an event would not happen in Australia – not because we don’t have politicians who wouldn’t hit journalists (although one hopes that is the case) but because we don’t have an organisation that analyses policy as does the CBO.
One of the biggest issues for the Australian Labor party in responding to the May budget is that there is more talk about cuts to growth in spending than about actual cuts. The $22.3bn cut to education, which Labor has spent much of the time since the budget prosecuting, is a cut compared with what it was promising to spend.
May 28, 2017 at 04:36AM
from Greg Jericho
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