Former Labor advisor Darrin Barnett says the federal budget delivered last week was a “steady as she goes” kind of budget.
“But certainly it wasn’t the bag of goodies that people got during the Howard years but
equally it wasn’t the horror show of the 2014 budget either,” Mr Barnett told Sky News Australia.
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