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Election Coverage Flat White

Reform, restore, recover

Election handouts just won’t cut it

16 April 2025

8:10 PM

16 April 2025

8:10 PM

The main solution to our drop in living standards is to spend a lot more in government handouts.

That is one likely impression left by our election debates.

Some demand instead a return to the fundamental reforms of 1981-96, which built our current and now lagging prosperity.

Those earlier fundamental reforms were forced on the unwilling by economic crisis.

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