Here at RiotACT it’s been a long few years of crying in the wilderness that the Government’s willingness to fund irrelevant bollocks was at odds with a Territory barely able to pay its way at the best of times.
Now the ABC is reporting on concerns in the Financial Review about our budget position.
[Former New South Wales auditor-general] Tony Harris compares the ACT Budget unfavourably to that of New South Wales.
Mr Harris says if the NSW Government had similar budget problems to the ACT on a per capita basis, it would be facing an operating deficit of more than $7 billion.