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		<title>Maley: why aren&#8217;t we already in surplus?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/11/maley-why-arent-we-already-in-surplus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/11/maley-why-arent-we-already-in-surplus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 01:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Budget 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surpluses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wayne Swan continues to pledge that the federal budget will return to surplus by 2012-13. The big question is why we’re not already there, asks <b>Karen Maley</b>?]]></description>
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		<title>Wayne and Kevin&#8217;s excellent financial crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/wayne-and-kevins-excellent-financial-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/wayne-and-kevins-excellent-financial-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surpluses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Bishop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stability of the Australian economy does have a bit to do with Rudd and Swan, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>If Howard was so hot, why aren&#8217;t we bailing out Wall Street?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/17/if-howard-was-so-hot-why-arent-we-bailing-out-wall-street/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/17/if-howard-was-so-hot-why-arent-we-bailing-out-wall-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[british banking system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surpluses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[countrywide loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rapid decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[south koreans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If the Howard Government was half as good an economic manager as it claims, we’d be participating in the current banking rescues, writes Stephen Mayne.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Errington: One last scare campaign?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/08/errington-one-last-scare-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/08/errington-one-last-scare-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Downer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surpluses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eerily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inconvenience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Reserve Bank has as good as destroyed the Coalition's chosen election slogan "Go For Growth". But this is a mere inconvenience for a campaign veteran such as John Howard, writes Wayne Errington.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</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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		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surpluses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Keating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yom kippur war]]></category>

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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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		<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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		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>South Korea versus Australia – our pathetic savings record</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/21/south-korea-versus-australia-our-pathetic-savings-record/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/21/south-korea-versus-australia-our-pathetic-savings-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surpluses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Costello has had plenty of ups and downs as Treasurer since March 1996, but when asked about his toughest single day in the job, he cites Christmas Day 1997 – the day South Korea ran out of foreign reserves.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Yet another Future Fund accounting rort from Cossie</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/04/yet-another-future-fund-accounting-rort-from-cossie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/04/yet-another-future-fund-accounting-rort-from-cossie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surpluses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[current account deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future fund]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Future Fund is already being obsessively secretive about its activities as we still don’t know exactly how much of its $50 billion-plus in cash has been deployed and in what asset classes, writes Stephen Mayne.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/24/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/24/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australians]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[budget surpluses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So members of the Exclusive Brethren don't vote? ... a poor understanding of basic economics ... cave dwelling over BHP ... Peter Garrett. MIA ... there is no left, just 2 variations on right ... ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/23/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/23/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surpluses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cookie jar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cookie monster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cousins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nrma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[$17 billion budget surplus and pork ... beware the Cookie Monster ... Nicholas Whitlam on Geoffrey Cousins ... the Exclusive Brethren ... Mary Kostakidis ... ]]></description>
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