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âWe make no apology for giving you a budget which will entail sacrifice,â concluded the Menzies governmentâs Treasurer Arthur Fadden in September 1951, less than two months after
The Australian Financial Review started publication.
But Sir Arthurâs punishing tax assault on households and businesses was not well received by Australiaâs upstart first national newspaper.
âFADDENâS DISASTROUS BUDGET FOR 1951-52,â screamed its page one headline.
Sir Arthur Fadden arrives at Parliament House to deliver the federal budget aiming to rein in a runaway economy.Â
Harry Martin
âNo more disastrous series of financial proposals can ever have been presented to Parliament than the Budget for 1951-52,â thundered the
Editor relished very serious business of newspapering
January 26, 2021 â 2.33pm
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The News, Adelaide, to editor-in-chief of
The Sydney Morning Herald. He spent 31 years building with immense energy a distinguished career in daily journalism. For the last eight of those years, under various titles, he carried chief responsibility for the
Heraldâs staffing and journalism in a period of social and political ferment.
He relished leadership in what he called âthe very serious business of newspaperingâ. But he was to write later that for much of the time he chafed under proprietorial and managerial restraints as he tried to edge the paper away from narrow conservatism towards more liberal ways.