Don’t be distracted by last night’s Budget – the main game is the election campaign.
Largely this Budget tells us we have maxed out the national credit card.
More than ever over the next few years we need to strip out FIRB and ACCC red tape and state surcharges on foreign investment to welcome investment from overseas to help build the commercial, industrial and residential assets our cities need.
We await the Opposition’s budget in reply this Thursday.
There is a lot riding on it.