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Chalmers’ third budget will fight and stoke inflation and growth
Timing for the next election will be about picking a sweet spot between things getting better and things getting worse.
Phillip CooreyPolitical editorWhen Kevin Rudd and John Howard squared off at the 2007 federal election, they were at complete variance over the nature of the main economic challenge.
Howard and then-treasurer Peter Costello, who between them had presided over 11 years of economic bounty, entered the campaign warning about “storm clouds on the horizon”.
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