
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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Glenn Milne in Sunday Telegraph — Sunday, 6 September 2009.
The developing trouble with the Government’s economic stimulus package is it’s pulling in two different directions at once.
Glenn Milne in Sunday Mail — Sunday, 6 September 2009.
The developing trouble with the government’s economic stimulus package is that it is now pulling in two different directions at once; one economic, the other political.
Glenn Milne in Sunday Herald Sun — Sunday, 6 September 2009.
New Zealanders and other foreigners are using the First Home Owner Grant scheme to buy holiday homes in Australia, the Federal Government concedes.