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There are three irrefutable facts in the blame game over which side of politics is responsible for our trillion dollar debt (“Government debt to hit $1 trillion today”, August 20). The first is that John Howard and Peter Costello paid back the Hawke/Keating-era debt, leaving Australia debt-free when they lost office. The second is that the Coalition under Morrison/Frydenberg had little choice when COVID hit but to pump money into the economy to stop total collapse. The third is that it is Labor’s responsibility to track a path back to…

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