More ‘efficient, effective’ future pandemic spending needed to keep deficit under control: Page
The government is projecting a swift decline to the federal deficit, but un-costed election promises or first-wave-style COVID supports could pump those numbers back up.
The government will have to find less expensive ways to deal with disruptions caused by the fast-spreading COVID-19 Omicron variant, if it wants to make good on its plan to rein in the deficit, say a current and former parliamentary budget officer.
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