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Keating's Working Nation plan for jobs was hijacked by bureaucracy: cabinet papers 1994-95

  • Written by John Wanna, Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University

The White Paper called Working Nation became the Labor government’s major economic statement in Paul Keating’s second term. However, the policy was principally an after-the-fact attempt to clean up a mess in the labour market and be seen to be doing something even if a little belatedly.

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