WA Inc. remains a noisome memory from the 1980s as the worst political scandal in WA politics and one of the very worst in Australia’s history. In a complex series of deals between the Brian Burke Labor Government and the Labor Party and a number of selected WA businessmen, nearly $1 billion in 1980’s dollars of public money disappeared, largely through the so-called John Curtin Foundation, officially an ALP fundraising structure.
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Hal G.P. Colebatch is an historian, journalist & lawyer
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