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What will they Finkel next?

20 June 2017

7:43 AM

20 June 2017

7:43 AM

The greatest contribution the Finkel Review makes to Australian public policy may, in fact, be a new verb.

From June 2017, to ‘finkel’ will be a term to describe how a government sets up an independent review that quickly gets hijacked by vested interests, rewrites its own terms of reference and delivers a report with skewed modelling and a patchwork of contradictory recommendations burning its political masters.

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