"The Howard government went to capital markets on no fewer than...

"The Howard government went to capital markets on no fewer than 400 occasions to borrow money.

Between March 1996 and November 2007, there were 135 lines of bonds that were taken to market in various bond tenders which were issued with a face value of $51 billion, while there were over 280 T-Note tenders with a face value of over $220 billion"

this sort of borrowing from our highest ever taxing govt with massive revenue streams

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