Economic Quote by Wayne Swan Download Open image “Australians have defied global economic gravity.” — Wayne Swan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economic Gravity
Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises. — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China. — Richard Glover Copy Share Image
Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers… — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We must break out of this mindset in Australia that we are a small nation on the other side of the world from the… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
America's role in the global economy inevitably was going to diminish; we're smaller relative to - as China, India, other emerging markets grow. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
We know that a smarter Australia means a stronger Australia. An Australia able to grasp the opportunities of the Asian Century. A skilled workforce… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future. — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
We believe in the Australian promise; that if you work hard, you won't be left behind. — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
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… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family. — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined. — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and… — Richard G. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
Business school graduates from the best schools earn large salaries and frequently rise to positions of great power. It would be nice if they… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image