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Craig Emerson

Where’s Morrison’s ambition for Australia?

Scott Morrison’s transactional government seems merely to want to return to the rut of slow economic growth with no ideas for the future.

Craig EmersonFormer Labor minister and economist

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As an adviser during the Hawke-Keating era, I yearn again for a government that is not merely transactional but is enthusiastic for a better country.

My new book, Life in the Hawke Office, available at the McKell Institute, is not just a trip down memory lane, describing the fun we squeezed in between our grinding work commitments. It conveys the energy of a government that set about the task of modernising the Australian economy.

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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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