australia faces a decade of debt, page-51

"Alan Partridge, my initial post was about the error of the article giving credit to Howard of paying down $96b in debt, when in fact it was the conversion of assets that accounted for $72b of the reduction in debt"

Hey Glug just because you sell an asset doesnt mean you pay off debt - there has to be a decision to pay it down or use the excess funds to spend on other things. Thats the fundamental difference bewteen what Liberals did and what Labor would have done. That is the context of what this thread is about.