Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Finance, Competition Policy and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

My question to the minister is as follows. Minister, the 2008-09 budget historic series shows real spending growth deflated by the consumer price index. Previously, the non-farm GDP deflator was used. Why has the CPI been used, given that a large amount of government spending is not included in the CPI basket?

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