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Australia on track for a strong budget surplus

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg Source: AAP

The mid-year economic and fiscal outlook showed the government is on track for $4.1 billion surplus in 2019/20, almost double the $2.2 billion figure it had forecast in May.


UNSW Finance Professor Max Tani tells SBS how the Morrison government managed to be the first to deliver a surplus budget in over 10 years.


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