Eric Armstrong, do you get your information from Rupert's rags? No one has informed the Greens about the $500 billion in the red because it's not true. It's more like $300.7 billion.
The debt ceiling has been increased by the LNP and Greens to $500 billion but not the debt we owe.
It's like my credit card has a limit of $5000 but I don't owe $5000.
The LNP have been spending like drunken soldiers since taking office and at a faster rate than Labor did.
Labor got us through the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and was praised by the world financial ratings agencies, who gave Wayne Swan the World's Greatest Treasurer Award and we now have AAA ratings from all three agencies for the first time.
Wayne Swan and Paul Keating are the only Australian treasurers to receive this award ever.
Our debt is small and is 27 per cent of GDP, compared to USA, UK, Japan, China etc. USA are about 100 per cent or more of GDP. We have an "income" of about $1.3 trillion per year.
I bet a lot of people are paying more than 27 per cent of their wages to cover their home loan today.
Have you any proof of this so called "rent a crowd" with the recent midnight vigil? It just shows that not all Australians are red-neck bogans.
The boats have been arriving for the last 200 years. The man was dragged out of the computer room and bashed to death.
He was helping fellow detainees to learn computer skills at the time the riots were going on.
This government is hiding a lot of the truth about this whole mess. They have not stopped the boats, they just tell you they have.
Since the election, 48 boats and 2620 refugees have arrived. The tow-back boats are costing us $500,000 each, and you report a $1.2 billion Spartan club med?
You mean a tent city and 500 millilitres of water per day, per person.
Roger Brown,
Greenbank
