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Ken Henry — An Economic Odyssey

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The Importance of Wargaming

Treasury more or less said sit on your hands, except in the monetary policy area. So what happened was the government and now Keating's now Prime Minister, of course, rather than Treasurer, the government finds alternative sources of advice. And then, and so the Treasury finds itself sidelined in the process that's developing a policy response to a recession. Well, that's completely absurd, right? Completely absurd,. It's perverse. What use are we if we're not at that table? So that's why we started Wargaming. I'm probably doing a deep injustice to those who were involved in framing the advice"

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