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If by a miracle Labor wins the poll, it must deal with the Treasurer
The Age | 19th May, 2013
Chris Berg

They say every political career ends in failure. But some more than others. All the evidence suggests Wayne Swan's sixth budget, released last Tuesday, will be his last.

In recent years the Treasurer has been confidently promising he would bring the budget back into surplus. This promise was central to the government's economic... Read

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE
Time to dump costly parental leave scheme
IPA Review
Alex Hawke

In 1975, Malcolm Fraser's Liberal government had the largest parliamentary majority in Australian history. The story is now well known: Gough... Read

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE
The Chinese capitalist miracle
IPA Review
Alan Moran

The Chinese economic miracle is the latest and most comprehensive success story since the end of World War II. Veteran economists Ronald Coase and... Read

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE
False dawn: the Arab Spring
IPA Review
Daniel Mandel

In a sense, the so-called Arab Spring can be said to have begun on 26 December 2010 in the Tunisian hinterland township of Sidi Bouzid, where a... Read

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