Economic Expansion Of Australia

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Since the early 1980s, successive Australian governments have deregulated financial and labor markets and reduced trade barriers. Malcolm Turnbull, a former communications minister, replaced Tony Abbott as head of the ruling Liberal–National coalition and as prime minister in a leadership ballot in September 2015. Australia is one of the Asia–Pacific’s wealthiest nations and has enjoyed more than two decades of economic expansion. It emerged from the 2009 global recession relatively unscathed, but stimulus spending by the previous Labor government generated a fiscal deficit. Australia is internationally competitive in services, technologies, and high-value-added manufactured goods. Mining and agriculture are important sources of

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