No stopping the votes

By rights, reducing government spending would seem an obvious response to soaring deficits and declining tax revenues, courtesy of the resources sector’s hard times. But with an election in offing and an electorate open, as always, to be bribed, what chance we’ll see an outbreak of fiscal discipline? Next to no chance at all, says Zeg, who is back at his drawing board after near-miraculous recovery from brain surgery

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