Australia Comes of Age

Sydney

IN the 1980s and early 1990s modern Australia grew up. The maturing process has yet to run its full course. However, it is now inconceivable that Australia will revert to the economic insularity which it widely embraced after achieving independence in 1901, even though Paul Keating, the main architect of economic reform Down Under, has resigned as deputy prime minister and treasurer (i.e., finance minister).

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Gerard Henderson

Sydney

IN the 1980s and early 1990s modern Australia grew up. The maturing process has yet to run its full course. However, it is now inconceivable that Australia will revert to the economic insularity which it widely embraced after achieving independence in 1901, even though Paul Keating, the main architect of economic reform Down Under, has resigned as deputy prime minister and treasurer (i.e., finance minister).