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.
