The Government has quietly set aside $1 billion from next year's Budget but is refusing to say where it'll go.

It amounts to 22 million dollars in 2027/28, before ramping up over a four-year period.

Infometrics principal economist Brad Olsen told Heather du Plessis-Allan that this is not a common occurance.

"That is just a little bit of an odd approach," he said. 

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