This week's announcement of job cuts at Infrastructure Canberra may not be particularly surprising, but comes as just the latest confused signal from a government that insists it has a plan for the prudent financial management of the ACT.
The ACT budget, handed down in June, contained some tough medicine, forecasting a continuing rise in expenses and net debt expected to grow every year of the forward estimates. The unforeseeable shock of war to the global economy, which had driven up costs of most things but especially transport, had hammered the government's bottom line.
