The Financial Review helped forge the political and intellectual opposition to the nation’s 20th-century industry protectionism, which was once a bipartisan article of Australian faith, akin to the fair go.
New chairman Chris Barrett needs to demonstrate that his appointment is designed to protect a great Australian economic institution from such attacks, not to surrender to them.
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Without warning, at 7pm on July 18 1973, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam slashed every single import tariff at once – starting at midnight. It’s the kind of bold political leadership we rarely see today.