Rollback of rational reform
Aug 5th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: OpinionMichael Stucthbury: My just-retired predecessor as economics editor, Alan Wood, was part of a journalistic tradition that helped reverse Australia’s relative decline and underwrite today’s prosperity. If you want to pay less for your next car, your next suit or your next pair of shoes, tell that to Kevin Rudd’s Industry Minister, Kim Carr.
Woody gets a footnote in Alan Reid’s The Power Struggle, the story of the battle to succeed Harold Holt after the prime minister disappeared in the Portsea surf in December 1967.