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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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