Predicted End of Resources Boom

Only by 2008-09 does Access see the [Feral Gumme't budget] surplus for the year dropping back to $6.5 billion ($2.8 billion less than officially projected) as the Government's temporary revenue windfall from the global resources boom finally peters out.

- Ross Gittins, Enough of These Cuts, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 November 2005

http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/enough-of-these-cuts/2005/11/27/1133026345911.html#