Adjustment Quote by Paul Keating

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing…

— Meredith Whitney

This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse…

— Tony Abbott

If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either…

— Ben Bernanke

Let me put it very forcefully: No large economy has ever recovered from an economic downturn through austerity. It's not going to happen in…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I believe that if we are able to, obviously we need to ensure that we have a robust budget that's balanced, but there's no…

— Jagmeet Singh

In fact, in Parliament, I pointed out that Australians on average incomes would move into the second highest tax bracket in the next couple…

— Joe Hockey

One of the things that happens when you have austerity is that wages get lower, and some people think lower wages in the short…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people.…

— Anonymous

As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that.…

— Kevin Rudd

South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely…

— Jay Weatherill

Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened.

— Owen Jones

We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China. China's been doing relatively well. So…

— Richard Glover