With the nation’s economic, political, cultural and civil exceptionalism shattered, major effort is needed to prevent Kevin Rudd’s warning of a “second-rate country” coming true.
Two decades ago, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development celebrated Australia’s reform-led prosperity as a role model for other developed economies.
Australia’s “deep structural reforms”, it said in 2004, had been “proposed, discussed, legislated, implemented and followed up in virtually all markets, creating a deep-seated ‘competition culture’”.
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