howard政府存錢，Rudd政府花

Rudd政府上台時從前任howard政府繼承了900億的金融防火牆，包括聯邦財政盈餘，未來基金和兩個基本建設基金。兩年過後，預算從200億盈餘變成580億赤字，聯邦淨負債從0變成1300-1800億。
前任政府花了十年償還960億工黨政府遺留債務，Rudd政府隻用了一年就重建了

The Rudd government inherited a massive $90 billion financial firewall when it came to office, via a federal budget surplus, the Future Fund and two infrastructure funds. In two years the budget has gone from $20 billion in surplus to $58 billion in deficit. Net federal debt has gone from zero to a projection of between $130 billion and $180 billion. It took the previous government 10 years to dismantle the $96 billion debt mountain that it inherited. It took Rudd one year to build it back up again.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/how-rudd-the-dud-dropped-australia-in-the-alphabet-soup-20100221-ontz.html