The 2026 Budget and ‘embarrassing the bastards’, with Chris Richardson

The 2026 Budget (and Budget Reply) gave us one of the more potentially consequential weeks in politics and economics in many years. And the GOAT of Budget economics is Chris Richardson, who returns to The Good Oil. In a wide-ranging chat, Chris and Scott talk deficits, negative gearing, capital gains tax, indexation of tax brackets, the NDIS, tobacco excise (and the Laffer Curve), and how to improve policy outcomes.

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The 2026 Budget and ‘embarrassing the bastards’, with Chris Richardson is an episode from The Good Oil with Scott Phillips by LiSTNR Support.

This episode is 53:12 long.

This episode was published on May 19, 2026.

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