AAP General News (Australia)
02-09-2011
FED:Editorials, Wednesday February 9, 2011
SYDNEY, Feb 9 AAP - On Wednesday The Australian says if Wayne Swan's declaration that
"fiscal discipline is the rock on which we build" is to amount to anything more than rhetoric,
Penny Wong must be a rigorous Finance Minister in the mould of her predecessor Peter Walsh,
the "Dr No" of the Hawke-Keating governments. Senator Wong will need to stare down cabinet
colleagues intent on more funding for pet projects if the government is serious about
returning the federal budget to surplus by 2012-13. The dent to mineral and agricultural
exports from this summer's natural …
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