Private-equity buyers are flush with cash, and corporate balance sheets can handle more debt.

[Still,] profitability has increased each year, ... very little debt and a strong balance sheet.

If we don't go into any more debt this year, we may not have to dip into the fund balance. The next six months will depend on what emergencies we have.

The debt Mitsubishi Motors has will not show up on our balance sheet.

It is quite possible that the rise in household debt ratios could go a good distance further. The risk, of course, is that the process goes too far and that a painful correction ensues.

We can balance the environment and we can balance Australia's cultural heritage,