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Wayne the nation builder

BY ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008 11:41AM

Treasurer Wayne Swan has donned his hardhat and launched Australia on a massive $40 billion nation building program centred on three new investment funds designed to fix infrastructure, health and education while also kick starting Australia's regional financial hub ambitions.

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