The Financial Review scores Australia’s prime ministers

Michael StutchburyEditor-at-large

Updated Aug 16, 2021 – 6.17am, first published at 5.00am

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Over seven decades, The Australian Financial Review’s editors have been truly satisfied with a government’s economic policy performance only twice.

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Michael StutchburyEditor-at-largeMichael Stutchbury is editor-at-large. He is in his fourth decade of writing for and editing national newspapers. After nearly six years as editor of The Australian, he returned to the Financial Review as editor-in-chief (2011-2024).