#insiders AUSTRALIA'S most needless wasteful spending took place under the John Howard-led Coalition government rather than under Labor.
IMF identifies only two periods of Australian "fiscal profligacy" in recent years, in 2003 and between 2005 and 2007.
"The Australian public is more likely to trust university researchers than banks, the government and the press." (ANU Poll). The government's repeated nonsense about its actions on climate change aren't convincing anyone