You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone
Opinion: Canadian-born James Allan offers governance advice from across the Tasman drawing on lessons from the Australian election of 2007.
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I arrived in Australia in early 2005 from New Zealand and recall thinking what a superbly governed country it was compared with New Zealand and my native Canada. There was zero government debt. Surpluses filled the foreseeable horizon. Australia had the democratic world’s lowest energy prices.
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James Allan
Thu, 31 Aug 2017
Thu, 31 Aug 2017
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You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone
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