Communists gone but inflation remains

Updated January 15 2013 - 10:56am, first published 10:55am

In a news item in The Courier (1974), in a report on a speech by the then federal country party leader Doug Anthony in Ballarat, Mr Anthony is quoted as saying "The communist understands that a nation whose economy is undermined by inflation, and a nation in which the fabric of society is damaged by inflation and by industrial strife inflation brings, and by the lowering of standards and values, is a nation on the way to domination by others".

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