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The coalition economic reform agenda in the aftermath of the mining boom
Between 2005 and 2012 Australia underwent the most dramatic mining boom since the Victorian gold rush. Investment in the sector, broadly defined, quadrupled (ABS, 2012). The boom also fuelled growth in a wide range of industries servicing the sector, in particular engineering construction and business services. And when coal and iron ore came off the boil, construction of LNG projects helped to take up some of the slack. The mining boom was an important factor in boosting the economy in the years after the global financial crisis, helping to extend the long period - now approaching a quarter century - since Australia last experienced a recession, an achievement unique in the country's history.
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The origins of the crash and the limits on recovery
Three years after the global financial crisis (GFC) it is timely to assess its origins, impacts and consequences. The dominant explanation for the crisis in popular discourse has focused on factors that lie outside the sphere of capital accumulation, whether these are the 'common sense' ideas that the GFC resulted from unbridled 'greed' by the bankers or the incapacity of poor people to manage their mortgages, or the Keynesian notion that the crisis resulted from inadequate regulation of the financial system (Elliott and Atkinson, 2008; Roubini, 2009). To the extent that there is a solution to these problems, other than moral homilies addressed to financiers, most writers have pointed to the need for better regulation of the financial system and a more balanced relationship between financial and productive capital (Arestis and Sawyer, 2010). Such themes are evident also in the work of some of those working in the Marxist tradition, such as Blackburn (2008). Common to all of them is the idea that capitalism can somehow be reformed into performing more effectively and future crises warded off (McNally, 2011: 88).
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