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Stabilise, normalise and exit = $4billion. Cheap at the price?

Crikey / Friday, 29 June 2007

On Monday, I was asked by the mainstream media to cost the new Howard/Brough approach in the Northern Territory: Would it cost the tens of millions that the Prime Minister indicated he was willing to commit to this new state project to fix the “national emergency”? I came up with $4 billion, which turns out, was too conservative, writes Jon Altman.