
Wayne Swan delivered his fifth budget, and again, we are seeing a further increase in debt. Through accounting tricks and shuffling money between months and years, the Treasurer is making a false claim about having turned around his record of debt and deficit.

Here we have it again: another year, another increase in borrowings; another year, yet more put on the national credit card.

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Friday, 9 March 2012.
Senator Scott Ryan appeared on Sky News ‘The Nation’ with David Speers, Peter Garrett, Tim Wilson and Ged Kearney.
Wednesday, 7 March 2012.
Senator Scott Ryan writes that the government does not always know what is best and interfering with market forces can do more harm than good in his Modest Members piece in The Australian Financial Review.
Tuesday, 6 March 2012.
Senator Scott Ryan discuss Wayne Swan’s attack on vested interest, the new Gillard ministry and the need to have an election on ABC 24′s Capital Hill with Lyndal Curtis and Graham Perrett MP.