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How to win the political argument for good policy
An economic problem, pressure on voters, and a government willing to step up. This is when change happens.
Laura TingleColumnistA week before the 1983 election, Bob Hawke rang economist Ross Garnaut to talk about whether Garnaut would work for the likely next prime minister of Australia as his economic adviser.
“I know it wasn’t in our policy to get rid of protection,” Garnaut this week recounted Hawke saying to him, “but one of the reasons I want you to work for me is what you have been writing about that for the last 10 years.”
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