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Plenty of work in the bush, Birmingham tells jobless – The Australian Financial Review
The government is stepping up the case for withdrawing emergency financial supports at the end of March.
Senator Birmingham will make his comments in a speech to the Israeli Chamber of Commerce in Adelaide on Friday as part of a concerted build-up by the government to transition the economy away from the big-spending emergency measures that have been the hallmark of the past 12 months.
The national economy cannot run on taxpayer dollars and deficit spending forever, he will say.
On Thursday, Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy said the economic recovery was probably locked in and the nation should shift…
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