Making Australia Great: Inside Our Longest Boom

In the 70s Australia's closed economy was smashed by shock after shock. By the 80s we were suffering high unemployment & inflation. Radical reform was needed.

In the 1980s the economy is radically overhauled by the Hawke/Keating government. The challenge was how to manage the bumpy roller coaster of the free market.

George Megalogenis goes into the eye of the global economic storm of the GFC and hears from the political leaders on whose watch it happened.