Well, what else can you expect? The state needs clean energy projects and cheaper than coal into the bargain to revive manufacture? Which needs to freed from the yoke of payroll tax to genuinely prosper!

With full employment and some additional exports being created, i.e. Right hand drive electric vehicles for which there's likely to be a growing market in places like Malaysia, India, Hong Kong New Zealand and all stations in between that still use the left side of the road. We could grow as much as we could tolerate?

We Aussies currently lead the world in molded carbon fibre manufacture, and we could build a much better battery, given we have copious lithium deposits, useful reserves of cobalt, and arguably the world's purest commercial graphene deposit!

Couple that to enough thorium to power the world for up to 700 years or ourselves for considerably longer if we simply retain this cheaper than coal carbon free energy here at home and rolled out as very localised power, to power up Industrial estates with energy direct from the producer and given the elimination of a costly grid and the usual middlemen from the projected scenario, for a price as low as 3-5 cents or lower per kilowatt hour!

Offer that to Tesla who make the Tesla X SUV, with a range exceeding 450 kilometres, and an acceleration of 1 to 100 in around 4 seconds!

And there's plenty of high profile competition emerging! Who would set up new companies right here, if we had the will and the intelligence to enact real tax reform, as icing on the cake.

We need a Bolder than ever before growth plan not further contraction and austerity measures that can only exacerbate that very possible dire future!? Add genuinely affordable housing and the sky's the limit! Stand there, just don't do something!
Alan B.

What on earth has a comment talking up Tesla got to do with bodgie Budget Forecasts ?