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SitiWanMahani - Australia menolak
meningkatkan siling hutang, berharap untuk menge-lakkan penutupan gaya
-Amerika. Rumah atas Australia menolak cadangan untuk menaik-kan siling hutang
kepada AU$500 billion (US$465 billion), yang jika tidak diselesaikan sebelum
Disember 12, boleh menghantar negara ke satu senario penutupan.
Perdana Menteri
Australia Tony Abbott telah berjanji dia akan mengangkat siling hutang ekonomi
ke-12 terbesar di DUNIA untuk AU$500 billion, tetapi menghadapi tentangan
daripada Parti Buruh dan Greens, yang mahu mengehadkan had di AU $ 400 bilion (
kira-kira US$373 billion).
Had semasa
berdiri di AU $ 300billion, yang dijangka akan dicapai oleh 12 Disember,
menurut gabungan Liberal-Nasional. Gabungan Abbott mempunyai majoriti dalam
Dewan Rakyat, tetapi tidak Senat rumah atas, yang mempunyai kuasa untuk
menghalang undang-undang.
Jika tiada
perjanjian dicapai, mereka akan masukkan penutupan kerajaan ALA-Amerika Syarikat,
menutup tangan ‘tidak penting’ kerajaan dan membuang pekerja negeri sehingga
had hutang yang dipersetujui.
Persekutuan
Bendahari Joe Hockey telah mencetuskan idea penutupan kerajaan, dan telah
memberi amaran “besar” pemotongan perbelanjaan jika siling tidak dilanjutka. “Jika
Buruh menghalang peningkatan dalam had hutang, tidak ada pilihan tetapi untuk
mem-punyai luka besar-besaran untuk perbelanjaan kerajaan:” kata Bendahari Hoki
di televisyen Australia pada 13 November, laporan Bloomberg.
"Kerajaan
sedang berjalan atas wang yang dipinjam,” kata Hockey. Rundingan di Australia
menunjukkan pendirian licin kerajaan pada belanjawan, Nomura Holdings Inc kadar
faedah strategi Martin Whetton memberitahu Bloomberg.
“Ia tidak
kelihatan baik untuk Australia,” kata Whetton yang berpangkalan di Sydney. “Kita
telah melihat dengan contoh Amerika Syarikat bagaimana gangguan ini pelbagai
perte-lingkahan politik terhadap hutang boleh jadi. Gambar yang lebih besar
adalah bahawa jangkaan hasil belanjawan yang miskin bagi kerajaan dalam tempoh 4
tahun akan datang kerana perbelanjaan yang tinggi dan ekonomi yang semakin
meningkat sub-trend.”
Kerajaan Amerika Syarikat
telah dipaksa penutupan (shutdown)
apabila Kongres gagal untuk berunding mengenai perjanjian bajet di
tengah-tengah hampir $17 trillion dalam hutang. National Australia Bank Ketua
Eksekutif Cameron Clyne mengesyorkan Australia mengembang defisit untuk
berkembang.
Penarafan kredit
AAA Australia , kata ketua bank itu, ia menyediakan peluang yang unik untuk
mengeluarkan lebih banyak hutang kerajaan untuk membiayai infrastruktur dan pertumbuhan
ekonomi negara. $1.5 trillion ekonomi Australia mempunyai sangat suram ramalan
- pengangguran dijangka tidak akan jatuh sehingga 2015, defisit bajet lebih
daripada $ 30 bilion dijangka untuk tahun 2013 fiskal, dan ceramah perdagangan
bebas dengan negara-negara jiran adalah serangan seluruh ayat-ayat mengintip.
Selepas memenangi
jawatan pada 7 September, Abbott mengumumkan beliau mahu mengembangkan hubungan
perdagangan bebas cukai Australia dengan China, Jepun, India, Indonesia dan 8
negara-negara lain dengan menyanyi Perkongsian Trans-Pasifik.
Australia
Rejects Raising debt Ceiling, hopes to avoid
America-Style Shutdown . . .
Australia’s upper
house rejected a proposal to raise the debt ceiling to AU$500 billion ($465
billion), which if not resolved by December 12, could send the country into a
US shutdown scenario.
Australian Prime
Minister Tony Abbott has promised he will lift the debt ceiling of the world’s
12th-largest economy to AU$500 billion, but is facing opposition from the Labor
Party and Greens, who want to cap the limit at AU$400 billion (about$373
billion).
The current limit
stands at AU$300billion, which is expected to be reached by December 12,
according to the Liberal-National coalition. Abbott’s coalition has a majority
in the lower house, but not the upper house Senate, which has the power to
block legislation.
If no deal is
reached, they would enter a US-style government shutdown, closing
‘non-essential’ arms of the government and laying off state employees until a
debt limit is agreed. Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has stoked the idea of a
government shutdown, and has warned of “massive” spending cuts if the ceiling
isn’t extended.
“If Labor
prevents an increase in the debt limit, there is no choice but to have massive
cuts to government expenditure,” Treasurer Hockey said on Australian television
on November 13, Bloomberg reports.
“The government
is running on borrowed money,” Hockey said. The negotiations in Australia show
the government’s slippery stance on its budget, Nomura Holdings Inc.
interest-rate strategist Martin Whetton told Bloomberg.
“It’s not a good
look for Australia,” said Sydney-based Whetton. “We’ve seen with the US example
how disruptive these sorts of political disputes over debt can be. The bigger
picture is that budget revenue expectations are poor for the government over
the next four years because of high spending and an economy growing sub-trend.”
The US government
was forced into a shutdown
when Congress failed to negotiate on a budget deal amid nearly $17 trillion in
debt. National Australia Bank chief executive Cameron Clyne recommends
Australia expands its deficit in order to grow.
Australia's AAA
credit rating, according to the bank’s chief, provides it a unique opportunity
to issue more government debt in order to fund domestic infrastructure and
growth. Australia’s $1.5 trillion economy has a very gloomy forecast-
unemployment isn’t expected to drop until 2015, a budget deficit over $30
billion is expected for the 2013 fiscal year, and free trade talks with
neighbors are breaking down over spy revelations.
After winning
office on September 7, Abbott announced he wanted to expand Australia’s duty-free
trade relationship with China, Japan, India, Indonesia, and 8 other countries
by singing the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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