Thursday,
16 October 2025
‘A deficit is a deficit’: Reader responds to council’s budget reply

I refer to the claims made by the Parkes Shire Council General Manager (Kent Boyd), in his letter to the Parkes Champion Post of 2 October, 2025.

He states that council is not planning on running deficit budgets over the next 10 years.

He then says that the council will instead be running accounting deficits over the next 10 years.

A deficit is a deficit. This is a Claytons deficit of having a ...

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