Boatboy, please enlighten me: in which two consecutive calendar quarters did the australian economy post negative growth in the past 22 years.
As you'd appreciate, that is the commonly accepted definition of an economic recession.
Okay, in the past 10 years. 5 years?
I've got no argument with anyone who reckons K. Rudd was a hopeless PM, there is no question he was hopeless and achieved little of value, and there's many on HC who would count his wrecking of Labor among the best things he did.
But Tony Abbott's little witchhunt via the royal commission is nothing more than a red herring, a waste of money and won't tell us anything more than we already know. Like the new PM, its pathetic.
Oh, those stats on before and after house fires are disturbing. Those beneficial unintended consequences. Who woulda thunk.
