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Whodunit? Really, we still dunno

From theage.com.au

One of the great unresolved disputes of Australian political history is set to be reignited today by the release of previously secret cabinet papers from 1983. The decision to float the Australian dollar that year is seen as the most important economic reform since World War II. But who deserves the most credit: Bob Hawke, prime minister at the time; or the treasurer who eventually tore him down, Paul Keating? On the eve of the papers' release, Mr Hawke insisted he did not want to get into a ''slanging match'' with Mr Keating, but essentially stuck with his version - that a reluctant treasurer had to be persuaded to ... (full story)

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