PM won't budge from budget surplus promise

By Colin Brinsden
Updated September 7 2019 - 2:13pm, first published 2:07pm
Scott Morrison is unmoved by calls from Labor and the Reserve Bank to start spending to lift growth.
Scott Morrison is unmoved by calls from Labor and the Reserve Bank to start spending to lift growth.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison isn't about to loosen the budget purse strings in the face of the slowest economic growth in a decade, when the economy was in the grips of the global financial crisis.

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