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The Federal budget will include significant cuts to university funding and there are no shortages of opinion on it.
The Treasurer has touched on debt, wages growth and housing affordability ahead of the Federal budget while Labor has its own ideas on getting back to surplus.
With a month left for the final push and shove and lobbying that goes into formulating a budget Scott Morrison has to pull several rabbits out of his hat. Michael Pascoe comments.