After 44 years of deficits, we've a current account surplus. What went so right?
- Written by Peter Martin., Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Australia has been in a current account deficit – paying more money out to the rest of the world than it took in – for 44 straight years, since September 1975.
Until today. The update from the Bureau of...
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