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Leading article Australia

Get a job

13 June 2015

9:00 AM

13 June 2015

9:00 AM

‘I grew up… with an unemployed father. He didn’t riot. He got on his bike and he looked for work. And he kept looking till he found it.’

Ah, those were the days. Joe Hockey has always claimed that he admires Margaret Thatcher, but one struggles to find too much evidence of her spirit in his most recent budget.

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