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Economics

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BY BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009 9:30AM

Most Australians by now would be suffering from Budget diarrhea. For there is no escape. Everywhere you turn, it's Budget 2009 - the second for the Rudd Government and the first in contemporary Australian history of a tough one.

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