Ross Gittins: Everything you need to know about the Australian economy

By Ross Gittins
Updated June 4 2015 - 10:13am, first published May 24 2015 - 12:00am
Bob Hawke with Paul Keating, the best treasurer of them all.
Bob Hawke with Paul Keating, the best treasurer of them all.
Peter Costello's greatest achievement was to free the Reserve Bank. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Peter Costello's greatest achievement was to free the Reserve Bank. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Wayne Swan was deft in the wake of the global financial crisis. Photo: Andrew Meares
Wayne Swan was deft in the wake of the global financial crisis. Photo: Andrew Meares

Why did an accountant who'd forgotten most of the economics he was supposed to have learnt at uni and never really learnt to be a reporter, go from cadet journalist to economics editor in four years'? Because he had the immense good fortune to be in the right place at the right time. I joined the Herald just as the startling policies of the Whitlam government and the global economic disruption of the first OPEC oil price shock were convincing the nation's editors that the biggest part of politics was economics, and that they needed to run a lot more stories about the economy and needed more journalists proficient in economics to do it.

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