Australia’s COVID-19 Recovery Blows Budget Deficit out to $184 Billion

Australia’s COVID-19 Recovery Blows Budget Deficit out to $184 Billion
Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg (L) and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann (R) announce the Federal Budget in Canberra, Australia, on April 2, 2019. Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images
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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Finance Minister Mattias Cormann have said Australia is in an excellent financial position to weather the COVID-19 debt crisis despite the federal government creating record levels of debt to help the country get through the economic crisis caused by the CCP virus.

Speaking at a joint press conference in Canberra on July 23, Frydenberg noted that the world is currently experiencing “the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression.”
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