“… the Commonwealth budget is in worse shape than many of the states' and territories' budgets at this point if you measured them like for like.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Yes, but more to it
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Yes, Senator Gallagher is correct, but there's more to it than her claim suggests. There is no single way of assessing the relative strengths of Australia's Commonwealth, state and territory budgets, but on two widely c…