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  • AUSTRALIA

    When governments stop listening to advice

    • Jack Waterford
    • 08 August 2007
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    Interviewed a year ago for the biography John Winston Howard, Treasurer Peter Costello complained about the Government's binge spending. Since then, the PM has committed many billions more, and given every indication the pace of spending will increase enormously between now and the election.

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