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The Lucky Country's Burning Fuse

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Philip Bowring
May 12, 2010
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Australia is living high on hubris. In delivering his budget for 2010-2011 this week Treasurer Wayne Swan boasted that the nation had "defied economic gravity not by accident but by choice" with 1.4 percent expansion in 2009 and 2 percent growth expected in the year ending June at a time when other developed economies are only just struggling out of rec…

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