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.
Saturday, 24 December 2011.
Public servants have shown they know how to party, racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in entertainment expenses. While Australians carefully budgeted before Christmas, Senator Scott Ryan called for restraint from those spending taxpayer money in the article Party on the public purse.
