And so we again have a budget surplus. No longer will the Coalition be able to take up space in question time asking members of the government when the last time was that Labor delivered a surplus. And to be honest, when looking at the figures in the budget papers, you wonder if that was actually the entire point of the surplus in 2022-23.
Looking across the four years of the budget, we very much see the benefit of windfall taxation revenue (minus the amount of revenue that would have come from a real windfall profits tax).
