Tone-deaf Treasurer: Joe Hockey the budget's worst enemy

By John Hewson
Updated August 24 2014 - 10:08am, first published August 15 2014 - 8:47pm
"The government has now burnt a lot of its political capital for little gain in "fixing" the budget." Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
"The government has now burnt a lot of its political capital for little gain in "fixing" the budget." Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Treasurer Joe Hockey made a meal of his first budget and is making an even bigger meal of settling and selling it.

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