The Hon. John Ruddick

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Now, Australia had Gough Whitlam for three years, but Argentina, which was as wealthy as Australia, it had Gough Whitlam for 60 years.

Just, you know, very powerful unions, very powerful bureaucrats, foreign, no one wants to invest in the country, no one wants to start a business.

And I was in Argentina a couple of years ago, and you could see the place was once really wealthy, and you can see it's just going into decay.

So they've hit rock bottom.

And then they said, oh my, the voters said, look,

We just got to try something radical.

Here's this guy, this Harvey Malay.

Now he's got the chainsaw out there.

He's got the crazy hair, right?

But look, he's a massive academic.

He looks like a bit of a rock and roll star, right?

But he's like written 50 academic papers on economics.

And he said, look, vote for me and we're going to take some radical surgery.

And there's going to be more pain for a couple of years because when the patient's sick, you've got to give them some tough medicine.

But then the miracle was he comes in and he abolished, he reduced the size of the government by 30%, pretty much overnight.

Now, he ideally, Sam, he wants to reduce it down to 0%, okay?

That's a question for another day.

But he wants to keep cutting.

Now, as soon as that happened,

The place has just come alive.

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