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		<title>Financial stability remains major challenge in the future</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/02/09/financial-stability-remains-major-challenge-in-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ensuring the stability of the financial system, and the role of monetary policy, will be one of the major challenges in this decade and beyond, Australia&#8217;s central bank officials say.
Another issue, which came out of the response to the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, will be the how fiscal and monetary policies interact, according to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banks raised $160 billion through use of guarantee says Swan</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/02/09/banks-raised-160-billion-through-use-of-guarantee-says-swan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/02/09/banks-raised-160-billion-through-use-of-guarantee-says-swan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian banks were able to raise more than $160 billion on international markets through the federal government&#8217;s wholesale funding guarantee, Treasurer Wayne Swan says.
Mr Swan on Sunday announced that the wholesale funding guarantee, along with the guarantee for deposits over $1 million, would end on March 31.
The Financial Claims Scheme, which is a free guarantee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opposition has no credibility on economics says Swan</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/02/07/opposition-has-no-credibility-on-economics-says-swan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/02/07/opposition-has-no-credibility-on-economics-says-swan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Credibility]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Opposition]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

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Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has accused the opposition of voodoo economics, saying its credibility on the subject is a &#8220;smoking ruin&#8221;.
His comments came after the Reserve Bank predicted on Friday that the Australian economy would grow by 3.25 per cent in 2010, and by 3.5 per cent next year.
&#8220;I welcome these stronger forecasts, but we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government spending to blame for housing finance fall - Hockey</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/01/14/government-spending-to-blame-for-housing-finance-fall-hockey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2010/01/14/government-spending-to-blame-for-housing-finance-fall-hockey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Government Spending]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Housing Finance commitments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reckless federal government spending is to blame for plummeting housing finance figures, Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey says.
Total housing finance by value fell 1.6 per cent in November, seasonally adjusted, with a drop in owner-occupied housing commitments having the biggest impact.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data shows housing finance commitments for owner-occupied housing fell 5.6 per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public losing faith in the government over economy says Abbott</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2009/12/13/public-losing-faith-in-the-government-over-economy-says-abbott/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2009/12/13/public-losing-faith-in-the-government-over-economy-says-abbott/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Public Faith]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australians are losing faith in the federal government because it can&#8217;t save money to keep the economy in a good state, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.
New opposition finance spokesman Barnaby Joyce said on Friday the states were carrying $170 billion in debt and rising interest rates were affecting their capacity to make repayments.
&#8220;I would say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joyce&#8217;s economic commentary irresponsible</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2009/12/13/joyces-economic-commentary-irresponsible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2009/12/13/joyces-economic-commentary-irresponsible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Barnaby Joyce]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Big Four Banks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The federal opposition is being irresponsible by proposing to break up big banks to boost competition, the government says.
Opposition finance spokesman Barnaby Joyce says the concentration of banking interests has put banks in a position where they can raise interest rates by as much as they wish.
Westpac lifted its mortgage rates by 0.45 of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gillard says rates won&#8217;t stay at low levels</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2009/12/13/gillard-says-rates-wont-stay-at-low-levels/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2009/12/13/gillard-says-rates-wont-stay-at-low-levels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Stevens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Interest Rates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Federal employment Minister Julia Gillard has shied away from speculating on another interest rate rise in February on the back of Thursday&#8217;s positive jobs figures.
But she has once again reminded Australians that rates will not stay at what have been called &#8220;emergency levels&#8221; forever.
Positive figures for Australia&#8217;s jobless rate have increased the odds of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberals lose their crown as economic managers - survey</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2009/10/22/liberals-lose-their-crown-as-economic-managers-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2009/10/22/liberals-lose-their-crown-as-economic-managers-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan are the new champions of economic management.
A majority of voters believe the economy would have been in a worse state from the global economic crisis if the Liberal Party had been in power, a new survey released on Tuesday showed.
The Liberals - once seen as the superior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No justification for rate rise now, federal opposition says</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2009/10/04/no-justification-for-rate-rise-now-federal-opposition-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2009/10/04/no-justification-for-rate-rise-now-federal-opposition-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal opposition doesn&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s any justification for an interest rate rise this week, but says government spending will eventually force the Reserve Bank of Australia&#8217;s (RBA) hand.
But Treasurer Wayne Swan has no intention of ending the government&#8217;s stimulus measures, saying it is not a time for &#8220;victory laps&#8221; even though Australia has performed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another hearing, but nobody&#8217;s listening</title>
		<link>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2009/10/04/another-hearing-but-nobodys-listening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lendingcentral.com/2009/10/04/another-hearing-but-nobodys-listening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LC Team</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Stimulus Package]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Stevens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ken Henry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having coerced the boss of the nation&#8217;s central bank into expressing his thoughts on the federal government&#8217;s stimulus measures, was anyone listening?
Opposition parties seem to have come away from the inquiry into how the government is spending taxpayers&#8217; money propping up the economy with the same pre-conceived concerns that they had going into Monday&#8217;s hearing.
This [...]]]></description>
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