Howard spends `like a drunken sailor': Labor

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Tue Sep-28-04 12:43 AM
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Howard spends `like a drunken sailor': Labor

The opposition Australian Labor Party yesterday accused Prime Minister John Howard of spending "like a drunken sailor" to woo voters ahead of next month's election in which he will seek a fourth three-year term.

In a key campaign trail speech on Sunday, Howard unveiled A$6 billion (US$4.3 billion) in new spending on education, health, child care and small business.

National broadsheet The Australian calculated thatHoward racked up A$94 million in spending pledges for every minute he was addressing his party faithful in Brisbane in a speech that lasted just over an hour.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2004/09/28/2003204669

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Tue Sep-28-04 01:59 AM
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1. after 8 years of directing money away from such services

he's hoping his unfunded spending pledges will win him votes...

thankfully more people are wise to the way howard works - they are 'non-core' promises.

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