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Infrastructure spending: how do we know it is worth it?

Economy Matters: Budget 2021 included a big boost for government infrastructure spend.

Governments always seem to overpromise. The current fashion is to promise more infrastructure spending.

Budget 2021 included allocations for the Crown to spend $57.3 billion on infrastructure over the next four years, an increase from the previous four-year forecast of $42.2b ($3.9b in new

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John McDermott Tue, 25 May 2021
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