Jim Chalmers likes to boast, or marvel, that he is the first treasurer since Ben Chifley to deliver four budgets in a term.
If Labor wins the May election, the treasurer will reckon the budget will be done and dusted for this year. But actually, we really need another budget post election.
That’s for two reasons. First, because this one will be short on any hard reforms or big savings, because it is all about chasing votes.
