Return to surplus this year and stay in surplus so we can start repaying debt, rebuild our fiscal buffers and help to keep interest rates lower than they would otherwise be. Budget 2014 set out operating allowances of $1.5 billion a year (rising at 2 per cent each Budget) for discretionary new spending and tax reduction measures over the next term.
This example text from a political party manifesto is sceptical towards state expenditure on education, for example in favour of study fees or private schools