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With their protectionist retreat, Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey are curtailing job-creating investment

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

Pity the Australian people. In 2007, they elected Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister, a man who billed himself as an ‘economic conservative’ and turned out to be a reincarnation of Gough Whitlam, minus the easy charm. Now they’ve elected the Liberals’ Tony Abbott on the premise that he’d return the country to its pre-Rudd, reformist path.

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Mary Kissel is a Wall Street Journal editorial board member and host of Opinion Journal on WSJ Live. 

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