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Kohler: Dump Turnbull and his useless debt plan

Business Spectator / Friday, 9 October 2009

Malcolm Turnbull may have tried to get the media focus back on national debt yesterday, but his debt reduction strategy is a “tired, dismal effort that will sink without trace”, writes Alan Kohler.

Turnbull’s debt plan to cut $12b a year

Crikey / Bernard Keane / Thursday, 8 October 2009

Malcolm Turnbull tried to get some of the spotlight off his leadership by launching a “debt reduction strategy”, representing a major shift back toward the Coalition’s traditional rhetoric of small government.