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The 1992-93 cabinet papers reveal the chaos behind the government's economic statement

  • Written by John Wanna, Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University
imageThe government was forced to respond to John Hewson's plan.The National Archives of Australia, Author provided

The 1992-93 cabinet papers, released today by the National Archives of Australia, reveal a government struggling for solutions to myriad problems.

These were tough, lean years for Australia. The recession “we had to have” was...

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