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A return to balanced budgets is a decade away, mid-year update says

By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The budget is headed for a deficit of $26.9 billion this financial year but in the following three years the budget is forecast to be deeper in the red than earlier forecast.

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