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Craig Emerson

Good-bye to all that complacency

A better post-virus Australia means junking our mistakes in immigration, monetary and climate policy.

From today, a detailed road map is available for transforming Australia to a country of growing and shared prosperity, social cohesion and leadership in global efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Professor Ross Garnaut’s latest book, Reset, is, as expected, economically coherent. But its policy prescriptions are also mostly realistic, politically feasible and available to any mainstream political party with ambition for our nation.

Professor Ross Garnaut thinking about Australia’s post-virus future.  Photo: Luis Ascui

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Craig Emerson is managing director of Emerson Economics. He is a distinguished fellow at the ANU, director of the Australian APEC Study Centre at RMIT and adjunct professor at Victoria University’s College of Business.

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