As treasurer, Bill Hayden set Labor on the path to economic rationalism

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Former Labor leader and governor-general Bill Hayden, whose death was announced on Saturday, is rightly being remembered for introducing Australia’s first universal healthcare scheme Medibank, which lives on today as Medicare.

Less well known is his brief but important role as Australia’s...

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