Kevin Rudd maintains that he is a “fiscal conservative” which means he should have no trouble keeping these in check:
- Unemployment rate: 4.3 per cent
- Interest rate: 6.75 per cent
- Economic growth: 4.3 per cent
- Budget Surplus 2007: $10.6 billion
- Growth in real net national disposable income per head 2002 – 2007: 16 per cent
- GST: 10%
- Future Fund savings: $61.5 Billion
- Days lost in industrial strikes/action: Lowest since 1913
- National greenhouse gas emissions: 559 million tonnes (2005)
