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	<title>Crikey &#187; budget surplus</title>
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		<title>Essential: majority say no need for a fast return to surplus</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2011/11/28/essential-research-54-46-to-coalition-5/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2011/11/28/essential-research-54-46-to-coalition-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest Essential poll reveals that 71% of the population are against returning to surplus if doing so means "cutting services and raises taxes" and 58% believe there is no rush, reports <b>William Bowe</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Budget surplus fetish means more harsh spending cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/08/budget-surplus-fetish-means-more-harsh-spending-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/08/budget-surplus-fetish-means-more-harsh-spending-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Energy Finance Corporation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health budget]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=257720</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If the government is serious about guaranteeing an excess of revenue over expenses, it must make spending cuts now, writes <b>Adam Creighton</b>, a research fellow at The Centre For Independent Studies.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kohler: surplus stupidity and the case for delaying carbon tax &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/12/kohler-surplus-stupidity-and-the-case-for-delaying-carbon-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/12/kohler-surplus-stupidity-and-the-case-for-delaying-carbon-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Kohler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global economic downturn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=240719</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are about to get a lesson in the absurdity of political discourse: the government is going to be accused of "breaking a promise" if a global downturn prevents the budget from returning to surplus by 2013. Or if it delays the carbon tax.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>A good carbon tax day</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/26/a-good-carbon-tax-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/26/a-good-carbon-tax-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANZ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US debt ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A news day where the carbon tax debate does not feature. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: forget the surplus, voters say, and save us from cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/04/essential-forget-the-surplus-voters-say-and-save-us-from-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/04/essential-forget-the-surplus-voters-say-and-save-us-from-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Whittaker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greens]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=215324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most voters would rather the federal government delay its back to black strategy and extend the deficit to stave off service cuts and tax hikes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kohler: the cost of our surplus obsession</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/27/kohler-the-cost-of-our-surplus-obsession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/27/kohler-the-cost-of-our-surplus-obsession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Kohler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama administration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=199107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Prime Minister is too worried about the fiscal balance and the US President is not worried enough.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gillard and the ministry for funny coats</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/gillard-and-the-ministry-for-funny-coats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/gillard-and-the-ministry-for-funny-coats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[el nino la nina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queensland floods 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=197930</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is it about politicians that they love to get into fancy dress whenever they make an appearance with members of the military?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Van Onselen: Wong is prepared to slice and dice</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/wong-right-for-budget-surplus-job/story-e6frg9if-1225950383848</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/wong-right-for-budget-surplus-job/story-e6frg9if-1225950383848#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance minister]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=184538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If Julia Gillard is to make good on her promise to return the budget to surplus by 2012-2013 - and to maintain any notion of credibility she certainly needs to - the budget may have to take substantial cuts. That's why she appointed Penny Wong as Finance Minister, writes <b>Peter van Onselen</b>.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask the economists: a brief boom, and then what?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/28/ask-the-economists-a-brief-boom-and-then-what/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/28/ask-the-economists-a-brief-boom-and-then-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business confidence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=174890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In its latest Budget Monitor, Access says that while commodity revenues will benefit the bottom line in the short term by a total of $6 billion, outstripping Treasury's predictions, things could turn sour as prices inevitably tail off towards the middle of the decade. <em>Crikey</em> asked for a consensus.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/28/ask-the-economists-a-brief-boom-and-then-what/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Brumby hailed as Mr Responsible as debt triples to $39b</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/06/brumby-hailed-as-mr-responsible-as-debt-triples-to-39b/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/06/brumby-hailed-as-mr-responsible-as-debt-triples-to-39b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 03:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brumby government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Brumby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john lenders]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=136144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With John Premier promising to triple Victorian state debt from $13 billion to $39 billion in the next six years, the best thing you can say about Victoria’s financial position is that all other states are worse off.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/06/brumby-hailed-as-mr-responsible-as-debt-triples-to-39b/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Returning to surplus within six years is hopelessly optimistic</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8927&#038;page=1</link>
		<comments>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8927&#038;page=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 22:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=58554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rudd will not be able to honour his pledge to keep the budget in surplus over the next cycle, says <b>Rowen Cross</b> -- and he has the figures to prove it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Of deficit, surplus and stimulus-a-thon</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/15/of-deficit-surplus-and-stimulus-a-thon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/15/of-deficit-surplus-and-stimulus-a-thon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government budget deficits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was only a couple of weeks ago that the word on everyone’s lips was deficit, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd spends the surplus, kills the dream</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/14/rudd-spends-the-surplus-kills-the-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/14/rudd-spends-the-surplus-kills-the-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rudd dream of nation-building is over, for the rest of this term at least and probably for a while after that, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/14/rudd-spends-the-surplus-kills-the-dream/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Worshipping the cult of budget surpluses</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/02/worshipping-the-cult-of-budget-surpluses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/02/worshipping-the-cult-of-budget-surpluses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget 08]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s battle of the Budget leaks shows the game of expectations management about the size of the budget surplus is well underway, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another tick for Costello financial management. Not</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/23/another-tick-for-costello-financial-management-not/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/23/another-tick-for-costello-financial-management-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Kerr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic credentials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education endowment fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sms tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Market talk says that the Future Fund has dropped close to $10 billion amid the recent turmoil. Is Peter Costello to blame? <b>Christian Kerr</b> investigates.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Alan Kohler: 2007 another good election to win</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/15/alan-kohler-2007-another-good-election-to-win/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/15/alan-kohler-2007-another-good-election-to-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reason I think Kevin Rudd and the ALP will be good for investors is not part of the election campaign, and probably won’t be: they are likely to be better managers of prosperity than John Howard. 
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		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/15/alan-kohler-2007-another-good-election-to-win/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tax cut pledge prove a bigger surplus isn’t better</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/15/tax-cut-pledge-prove-a-bigger-surplus-isnt-better/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/15/tax-cut-pledge-prove-a-bigger-surplus-isnt-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Howard and his Treasurer, Peter Costello, have begun the election campaign with an incredible admission – that bigger isn’t always better when it comes to a surplus, writes Christian Kerr.

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