the hidden cost of paid parental leave, page-7

so tell us moondoong, with your self adorned economics mastery, why did howard have to borrow around $300b during his tenure?

by all accounts, with a mining boom and housing boom at the same time with it's massive revenues, surely didn't require this country to borrow such money, did it? - not to mention no GFC to contend with - so what was the money for moondoong?