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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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Peter reported economics for the ABC’s AM and PM programs for two decades before serving as economics editor of The Canberra Times, The Age and The Conversation. He hosts The Economy, Stupid on ABC Radio National.
For mine one of the best economic journalists in the country - Bernard Keane

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At least he is consistent, consistently wrong - Jamie Briggs

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