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Leigh, there’s nothing I’m prouder of than my record as treasurer.
We have an economy which is 13 per cent bigger than it was before the Global Financial Crisis.
We put in place the most successful response to the Global Financial Crisis and the global recession of any developed economy in the world.
We have an unemployment rate … one of the lowest in the world.
We have a big investment pipeline.
We have record low interest rates and we have contained inflation.
I’m really proud of that and I’m proud of what our Government has done over a five-and-a-half year period.
By any measure, this has been a dizzyingly successful period in Australia’s economic history and Wayne Swan has been one of our best ever treasurers. The 2013 budget is a remarkably austere and responsible tightening of spending in an election year, which even includes ditching elements of Howard’s flagrant middle class vote buying — but don’t expect the economic dunces in the establishment media to let that inconvenient fact out of the bag.
These days, Australians expect a budget to include a few tasty bribes — and why would our relic media try to dissuade them?
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/politics/swan-dive-marked-down-sales-blows-the-budget/
- By Gus Leonisky at 16 May 2013 - 8:59am
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meanwhile, dealing with the pyne-not-so-clean...
Labor MP Michelle Rowland has hit out at the Coalition saying it knew she had a sick child when they refused her request for a ''pair'' to leave Parliament, contradicting statements from senior opposition minister Christopher Pyne.
''I put in what I thought was a reasonable request,'' Ms Rowland told Fairfax Media on Thursday morning. ''I expressly stated it was because my child was sick and I would really appreciate the opportunity to be home with her . . . and I got a reply yesterday that that was declined.''
A ''pair'' is a gentleman's agreement between parties in which a politician excuses themselves from a vote to square the numbers when an opponent cannot attend Parliament for a good reason.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/coalition-knew-about-sick-child-when-it-refused-labor-mp-a-pair-20130516-2jnme.html#ixzz2TPNrTTHT
australia is working...
NSW has some of the lowest jobless rates in Australia, a new breakdown of unemployment data by regions shows.
Six out of the top 10 regions in Australia with the lowest unemployment rate for April were from NSW, a CommSec analysis of detailed labour force data from the Bureau of Statistics, released on Thursday, showed.
The unemployment rate was just 2.1 per cent in Sydney's Northern Beaches - the lowest in Australia and a fall from 3.2 per cent in the same month last year.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/australias-lowest-jobless-rate-20130516-2joox.html#ixzz2TRBDHtwn
Please don't let the coalition destroy this reasonable state of affairs in a very difficult world stage, by claiming that a lot of employed people are actually not doing anything much... Abbott wants to sack more than 12000 public servants, he wants to abolish the climate change department — one of the most important department to have in any government — and he wants to reduce the NBN to a pissy trickle to please his master Uncle Rupe... Do not trust one word from Abbott unless he praises the present government's record. Anything else in his reply to budget will be rotten garbage with coating of sweet crap...
Abbott is a deceitful liar...