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When The Sky Fell In - Kevin Rudd

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The First Home Buyers' Boost

If we'd gone into a deep recession while you were Prime Minister you probably would have copped some political flack for that but you managed to prevent it. Your senior economic advisor during your first term as Prime Minister Andrew Charlton wrote a book before he started working for you called Ozonomics. He made a very good point which is that governments receive either the blame or the praise for what happens in the economy during the term of office. It's not because they don't necessarily have control over economic events and nor do they necessarily cause them. I wonder whether you've considered the, so the first home buyers' boost which was part of the first $10.4 billion stimulus package.

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