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You can't fix the economy if you can't see it: how the ABS became our secret weapon

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
You can't fix the economy if you can't see it: how the ABS became our secret weaponYurich/Shutterstock/TheConversation

If we survive this economic crisis (and it is looking increasingly like we will, although the end of JobKeeper at the end of the month will be a setback) it will in large measure be because this time we’ve had real-time updates on what’s been going on.

Last time, we were flying blind.

In what must have...

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