Conservative Budget Sparks Violence
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From Times Wire Reports
Aborigines burned an Australian flag and clashed with police in Canberra in a second day of anti-budget protests only hours before the new conservative government delivered a fiscally tough 1996-97 budget. Treasurer Peter Costello told Parliament that Prime Minister John Howard’s government was seizing a historic opportunity to set Australia on the path to prosperity.
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