Five months of spending demands are more than actual increase of six years

I blogged last week how various lobby groups and had made $8.4 billion of demands in the five months since the .

Well by coincidence that is just about the level of actual increases over the last six years. So five months of demands (and I probably missed some) are at the same level of actual increases over six years.

2008/09 core crown expenses were $63.7 billion and in 2014/15 they were $72.3 billion.  An increase of $8.65 billion. That is less than just the last two years of which saw spending go up $9.95 billion.

The reasons we are back into is because of six years of fiscal restraint.

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