by Gozu » Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:29 am
The reality is with Minister's and Treasurer's it's all their departments & staff that do the hard yards and with the Treasurer it's treasury that does it all. Swan personally would've had bugger all to do with us avoiding the GFC in a big way just like Costello had bugger all to do with the mining boom (he was known not to have a close relationship with Treasury) and Keating's personal input in the reforms of the 80's are probably exaggerated given his lack of economic qualifications. They just need to be across the detail and say yay or nay.
"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment" – Warren Bennis