“In economics, as in politics, no national reservoir can stand the strain when everyone is turning on the taps and few are bothering to see that the catchments to the reservoir are working.”

— Geoffrey Blainey

Eye on Australia: Speeches and Essays of Geoffrey Blainey (1991)

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