Economically, Australia has been lucky – what matters now is what we do next
- Written by Jenny Gordon, Honorary Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University
ShutterstockAustralia has long thought of itself as the lucky country.
Whenever its economy has started to falter, a commodity boom has usually come along to restore prosperity… until in the 1980s, when the rest of the world failed to rescue us, and we embarked on a decade of reform.
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