Business

Mark Hawthorne

Mark Hawthorne is Senior Editor at The Age. Previously he was National Business Editor of Fairfax Metro Media.

Treasurer Scott Morrison

Another federal budget, another tired slogan

Joe Hockey's disastrous first budget will always be remembered for the term "lifters and leaners".  Malcolm Turnbull's second budget loomed as the year of "good debt and bad" debt, until the Prime Minister unleashed a new political slogan on the nation.