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Pledges raise billion-dollar questions - Opinion - smh.com.au: "Pledges raise billion-dollar questions

John Garnaut
April 18, 2007
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John Howard likes to deliver his spending promises in neat billion-dollar bundles. He explained this predilection after pledging $1 billion to Indonesia following the tsunami that laid waste to Aceh. 'I was determined that it would be big,' Howard said. 'When you think big, you think of a billion.'"