5 billion is little to worry about over 10 yrs, that's a loss of 500 million a year, since you're into research and want to dredge things up, why not go to www.aofm.gov.au where you can see that this alp government has been racking up debt to the tune of around 100 MILLION EVERY DAY since it's been in office.
Now that is something to get concerned about, not what you have posted.
BTW, selling the gold was a stupid decision in my opinion, but there was record low prices and they decided to offload it. I'm glad they did in a way, because it wasn't long after that I decided to start accumulating gold and silver bullion in small qty's ever since.
