CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's finance minister, Treasurer Peter Costello, warned Monday that a crippling drought and Australia's commitment to a possible war in Iraq would weigh heavily on the budget.
"The biggest new expenditure that we'll be having in the next year is obviously the forward deployment of troops, the aircraft, the ships in the Gulf,'' Costello told reporters ahead of a Cabinet meeting.
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