Time to Rediscover Australia’s ‘Golden Age’

Published on March 29, 2024

IN-DEPTH At one point in modern history, Australia was a world leader in promoting individual freedom and enterprise. The accession of Robert Menzies, who would be the country’s longest-serving prime minister, ushered in almost two decades of continued prosperity for the fledgling nation. It’s this approach that, Georgina Downer—daughter of former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer—says Australia must rediscover to arrest the “negative trajectory” the country has been on in recent decades. “We had a choice as a nation in 1949. At that election, we could have continued with the [Labor Prime Minister Ben] Chifley agenda of nationalisation and state control over the economy, and basically, all that flows from that type of economic structure,” Ms. Downer told The Epoch Times....

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