No budget cash splash helps region – professor

Glen Humphries
Updated May 9 2018 - 1:13pm, first published 1:00pm
Adding up all the benefits the region got from the federal Budget wasn't a lot, according to economics professor Alex Frino. Picture: Erin Jonasson
Adding up all the benefits the region got from the federal Budget wasn't a lot, according to economics professor Alex Frino. Picture: Erin Jonasson

The Illawarra didn’t get much in the federal budget – and that’s actually a good thing according to economist Alex Frino.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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