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Josh Frydenberg has the opportunity to transform Australia, permanently lowering unemployment

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Josh Frydenberg has the opportunity to become a transformational Australian treasurer. He has been bequeathed a set of circumstances that comes along rarely.

He has already shown himself able to shift the debate on important topics in order to achieve the previously unthinkable.

Most recently he did it with Google and Facebook, getting them to pay...

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