Final budget outcome shows 2023-24 surplus of $15.8 billion
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The budget surplus for last financial year has come in at $15.8 billion, well exceeding the $9.3 billion that was forecast in the May budget.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, just back from talks in Beijing on China’s economic outlook, will announce the result on Monday.
The government says the better-than-forecast outcome has been driven entirely...





