Late in the election campaign, as Australians firmed in their resolve to throw Labor out, a study appeared that suggested the nationwide demand for change might be mistaken.
According to the study, completed by academics at our largest federal crèche, Canberra’s Australian National University, households were better off under Labor than they had ever been under the Coalition.
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Tim Blair is a columnist at the Daily Telegraph in Sydney.
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