For all the talk about this being the most important Australian government budget since World War II, it will be business as usual for much of the public service, says Stephen Bartos.
Although there is record spending, debt and deficits, the revenue measures are primarily a change in timing of something already planned, and most of the spending is along tram tracks already laid down in earlier COVID-19 response measures.
Bringing forward a tranche of tax cuts was a centrepiece of the budget.
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