ELECTION SPECIAL 1: The real issues facing Australia*

The 2004 Federal election campaign is being fought around taxation and family payments issues, but may well be determined on security issues, following the bombing in Jakarta of the Australian embassy, Pat Byrne reports. Important as are national security issues, of equal importance is Australia’s loss of economic independence as the foreign debt soars towards $400bn, equal to almost half the nation’s annual production, or Gross Domestic Product. Not only is this threatening our economic soverei…

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