Swan avoids risking too much with juggling act

By Michelle Grattan
October 23 2012 - 8:34am

The government has done what it had to do. It has kept its budget numbers in the black, in a fiscal exercise driven by the imperative of preserving its political credibility rather than by economic necessity. Many economists could live with a deficit in these uncertain times but politicians no longer can.

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