The really bad ideas never go away – Bert Kelly.
Protectionism is one of those really bad ideas. Last month marked the 20th anniversary of the passing of one of Australia’s great political figures, Bert Kelly.
Bert arrived in Federal Parliament in 1958 as the Member for the South Australian seat of Wakefield and from then until he left the Parliament in 1977 fought a long and often bitter campaign against protectionism – first against a very powerful Deputy Prime Minister and Country Party Leader in John ‘Black Jack’ McEwen (‘Le Noir’ as then-PM Robert Menzies called him), and also against the...
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