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Thatcher, Reagan still point the way to a brighter future

The post-COVID years could be very grim without the transforming economic growth that the former British and US leaders became famous for creating.

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Josh Frydenberg and I have a lot in common.

We were born in the same year (1971). In the late 1980s and early ’90s, we represented our states in national sports (Josh, Victorian tennis; me, NSW athletics.) In 2009, we contested federal Liberal Party preselection (he convincingly won Kooyong in Melbourne; I narrowly lost Bradfield in Sydney).

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Tom Switzer is executive director at the Centre for Independent Studies and is an outgoing presenter on ABC Radio National.

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