Even if one accepts the claim of the Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff that very high public debt levels mean lower growth – a view that they never really established and that has subsequently been discredited – Australia is nowhere near that threshold. Its debt/GDP ratio is only a fraction of that of the US, and one of the lowest among the OECD countries.
即使你同意哈佛经济学家莱因哈特（Carmen Reinhart）和罗格夫（Kenneth Rogoff），认为高公债水平意味着低增长——这一观点从来没有真正提出过，并且随后就被推翻了——澳大利亚也远远没有达到阈值水平。其债务/GDP 之比只有美国的几分之一，为经合组织最低水平之一。