Budget aims at unemployment with a '4' in front of it
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The government will aim at driving unemployment below pre-pandemic levels in its May 11 budget and avoid any future sharp pivots towards “austerity”, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will say on Thursday.
Delivering his pre-budget address on the budget’s economic and fiscal strategy, Frydenberg does not give a specific unemployment...





