Near-record trade deficit

Near-record trade deficit 'last for a while'. :

"Australia has recorded its second-largest monthly trade deficit.

The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveal Australia's deficit with the rest of the world in goods and services grew to $2.7 billion in March."

Well, we've done well and can be very proud of those figures. We are told this is only temporary because blah this and blah that. Temporary has become a wonderfully important stalling word. Oh, it's only temporary, I suppose it's not really a problem. Anything can be magically turned into a non event with this lovely word temporary.