
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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Thursday, 10 May 2012.
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.
Thursday, 19 April 2012.
My colleagues and I have been out and about in the lead up to the federal budget, telling the truth about the Australian economy.
Friday, 2 March 2012.
The Labor Government barely left one crisis behind before lurching to a new one this week – its latest predicament surrounds a successor for soon-to-be-retired senator Mark Arbib Rather than getting caught up in their spiteful clashes, this week, my Liberal colleagues and I redoubled our focus on policy. On Tuesday, I spoke in the [...]