It’s official – the “conservative” Coalition government has now accumulated more government debt in five years in office than its predecessor, Labor, had in their six years.
As per the Australian Office of Financial Management (fast becoming an oxymoron), the total Australian government securities issued as of the end of last total $518,637 million.
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