Budget repair lost in plebiscite shadow

By Peter Austin
September 25 2016 - 4:30am
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the essential obligation of this parliament has got to be coming to terms with the economic reality of our situation.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the essential obligation of this parliament has got to be coming to terms with the economic reality of our situation.

WITHOUT a doubt, the biggest task facing the Turnbull government is to begin the unpopular task of budget repair, to stem the escalation in the national debt now growing at the mind-boggling rate of $1.4 billion a week.

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