Policymaking has always been a matter of making choices, managing trade-offs and balancing multiple goals and priorities to make complex budgetary decisions. Yet, the past few years have seen a rising
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General government sector operating expenses, sourced from Australian Bureauof Statistics historical data, classified by government purpose. Theunderlying data from 1961-62 to 1997-98 represent a conv