COVID measures to cost Australia $800 billion over the next decade

Confronting new budget forecasts reveal Australia’s net debt could blow out by as much as $800 billion over the next 10 years – nearly a quarter of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and $180 billion more than was predicted just two months ago.

Friday’s updated medium-term fiscal scenarios from the Parliamentary Budget Office suggests net debt in 2029-30 could be between 14 and 24 per cent of GDP higher than it would have been before the virus hit.

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