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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National

The 'ways and means' problem plaguing ACT's grand projects

Canberrans, according to Saul Eslake, are overtaxed and underserviced by a big-spending ACT government that does not pay enough attention to where the money will come from.

A long history of Labor, and Labor and the Greens governments, dreaming big while not worrying enough about the "ways and means" needed to fund major projects such as the light rail is a recurrent theme in both the interim report on ACT finances he handed down in February and this week's final report.

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