Labor looking to deliver back to back surplus in 2024.
Unemployment at record low of 3.7%.
Australians workers enjoying pay rises of 4% or more for the first time in a decade!
We really are the lucky Country...
"The Coalition has long attacked Labor as reckless with taxpayer funds but if Labor can land not one but two budget surpluses (something the Coalition failed to achieve when it was in power) it will go some way towards countering its critics — not that they'll ever concede that.While the government won't say it publicly, a second surplus this financial year looks increasingly certain. "A second surplus is in reach," the treasurer again repeated during a speech to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) on Thursday.It's been a common line from Chalmers ever since the mid-year budget update."
