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Ken Henry — An Economic Odyssey

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The False Equivalent of NAB

I don't think it's such a loss for the country that I left NAB, he says. He was cognizant of the scapegoating dynamic in leaving Treasury but not in walking into the banking royal commission. In those roles, no matter how much you do, you can't achieve the sort of change that you can achieve and have the sort of impact that you're working in the Treasury. Yum, you just can't. And so those roles, those very senior policy advising roles, they are simply in a different space from what people have been able to achieve in corporate world or NGOs.

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