The Wire

Bob Hawke famously ‘ended’ the drought when he came to office with a fresh Paul Keating as his Treasurer in 1983.

In this exclusive, 7:30’s Chief Political Correspondent Laura Tingle recalls that not many ALP Governments have had as much economic luck since.  She looks at how the economy has been shaped over successive Budgets and Treasurers and blasts apart the myths of economic management.