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Tuesday 14 April 2015

Seriously, no comparison

Colleagues and scholars from coast to coast, across Bass Strait and all the ships at sea.

Dateline: Australia, Federal Politics, Economic Reform, April 2015.

We often hear commentators lauding how the Hawke-Keating Government reformed the Australian economy and lamenting how our current federal government is incapable of doing the same.

This is no surprise.

Have a look at the four economic ministers that were central to those Labor governments of the 1980's.

Bob Hawke - Prime Minister, Paul Keating -Treasurer, John Button - Minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce, and Peter Walsh - Minister for Finance. 

These were serious people, pursuing serious agendas and achieving serious reform.

Compare them to the crèche of economic infants fumbling about in the day-care centre that passes for our current federal government.

Seriously.




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