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WA infrastructure spending goes ‘up another gear’
Tom RabeWA political correspondent
Western Australian premier Roger Cook has vowed to shift infrastructure spending “up another gear” as the state splashed billions on cost-of-living and housing measures to absorb the record 95,000 people who moved west last year.
Treasurer Rita Saffioti insisted her state’s big spending, pre-election budget would not stoke inflation as she handed down a $3.2 billion surplus for 2023-24 – the sixth in a row – underpinned by stronger-than-forecast iron ore royalties and buoyed by the goods and services tax.
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