Gittins re-writes mining boom’s history

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By Leith van Onselen

Fairfax’s Ross Gittins penned an article over the weekend playing-down the significance of the mining sector to the Australian economy:

Because people like me have spent so much time over the past decade and more banging on about the resources boom, we’ve probably left many people with an exaggerated impression of the sector’s importance.

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.