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Are a stimulus and a tough budget consistent messages

March 24, 2009 – 9:06 am

Rudd Government reneges on key promises | Business | News.com.au. Why give people lots of money to go out and spend and then tell them you’re going to rip it back off them a few months later? It just doesn’t make any sense.

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Day 2: Rudd ‘troughfest’ continues

February 6, 2009 – 10:25 am

Yesterday, it was the State Premiers. All in Canberra, hands on hearts, promising to spend like drunken sailors. And today, it is the interest groups. Rudd will ask them, in the national interest, to spend as much money as they can, as fast they as they can. They will emerge from their briefings vowing to [...]

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Ken Henry crosses the rubicon

February 6, 2009 – 8:56 am

Providing ‘evidence’ to the Senate last night, Treasury boss Ken Henry, sounded (according to media reports) more like a Labor staffer than an independent adviser providing politically disinterested advice to the government of the day. 
According to the Australian: “Dr Henry last night appeared before a hastily convened Senate inquiry into Labor’s massive economic stimulus package [...]

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