An evening with the treasurer: how governments belt out budget hits and hope someone is listening
- Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Governments, these days, tend to put a lot of political eggs in the budget basket. But this was not always so. The economic historian, Boris Schedvin, reported that the budget speeches of the treasurer for much of the 1920s, Earle Page, “read more like a chairman’s address to the annual meeting of a...