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| 82% free. australia, one of the asia-pacific region's richest democracies, has been governed by the conservative liberal party for 11 years. in the 1980s, the labor hawke and keating governments deregulated financial and labor markets and reduced trade barriers. although these changes transformed the country into an internationally competitive producer of services, technologies, and high-value-added manufactured goods, its export sector remains heavily dependent on mining and agriculture. australia is in its 16th year of uninterrupted economic expansion, with unemployment at 32-year lows. the howard government's policy agenda has been dominated in recent years by efforts to reform taxation, labor markets, and higher education. |
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