Many Australians rightly look back on the Hawke-Keating-Howard-Costello era of the 1980s and 1990s as Australia’s golden era of reform.
From the floating of the dollar to balanced budgets, and from low tariffs to wage bargaining, up to the introduction of the GST, reform used to be the result of mixing good leadership with all-out necessity.
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