Reborn finance minister Tom “Marshall's challenge now is balancing declining revenues against increasing needs” to quote the Telegram story from today’s from page.
He said the key is "spending wiser, and spending smarter."
Okay, sez your humble e-scribbler, so does that means Marshall’s previous tenure as finance minister involved spending dumb and dumber?
Interesting line to take during a by-election, incidentally. Cuts to spending by Marshall’s predecessor are what got the governing party into this by-election in the first place. Jerome! Kennedy the high-pitched predecessor – now the higher pitched health minister – has been busily backtracking on the cuts Marshall, Kennedy and their boss approved in cabinet.
Curious.
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