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Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.
Wayne Swan
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It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
Wayne Swan
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The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
Wayne Swan
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As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.
Wayne Swan
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
Wayne Swan
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Australians have defied global economic gravity.
Wayne Swan
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I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.
Wayne Swan
