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Originally Posted by bungarra
Started with the Button Plan enforced by Keating, the first FTA and cuts in tariffs in 1985.
Even Keating in his autobiography says he was proud of what he did to the Australian Automotive Industry and had he remained PM for another term, he would have got rid of all subsidies.
The hard part is, the unions backed the Button plan and the tariff cuts.
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Exactly, this was when Hawke & Keating opened up Australia to globalisation.