australia faces a decade of debt, page-68

Alan Partridge, the "rubbery numbers" were addressed in an earlier post. The assets values were adjusted from $72b to the actual figure of around $60b.

The other link I posted had the actual official dates and amounts for each of the asset sales.

The Howard debt figure includes the initial debt and the compound interest over 13 years.




loric, check Treasury official figures for 1975 to verify the surplus. (There is also a difference between a budget surplus and cash flow issues.)




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