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The sad reality of ‘Buy Queensland’

By Graham Young - posted Friday, 18 August 2017


The lesson of the quarter century from 1982 to 2007 is that governments need to trust their citizens to run their own lives, and citizens need to look to themselves first to get things done.

This state and this country need to cut debt and start investing again. We need to do more with less.

Yet we have a government increasingly regulating and taxing the economy and running up debt, and an opposition which appears only sporadically interested in calling them to account.

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They both should know better, or perhaps they have forgotten. 10 years is long enough to rest on our laurels. Time to do some real work rather than pea and thimble shows.

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An edited version of this article was first published in the Courier Mail.



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Graham Young is chief editor and the publisher of On Line Opinion. He is executive director of the Australian Institute for Progress, an Australian think tank based in Brisbane, and the publisher of On Line Opinion.

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