3. China
4. United Arab Emirates
5. Luxembourg
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6. Switzerland
7. Norway
8. Taiwan
9. Hong Kong
10. Australia
11. Netherlands
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12. Denmark
How the economy moves henceforward we can now measure against the above twenty benchmarks.
It will be possible to assess claims like this from Tony Abbott in a recent address: "Based on previous experience, we are confident that [our] changes will produce a million new jobs within five years … unlike the anaemic job creation record of the past six years."
We shall see.
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Alan Austin is an Australian freelance journalist currently based in Nîmes in the South of France. His special interests are overseas development, Indigenous affairs and the interface between the religious communities and secular government. As a freelance writer, Alan has worked for many media outlets over the years and been published in most Australian newspapers. He worked for eight years with ABC Radio and Television’s religious broadcasts unit and seven years with World Vision. His most recent part-time appointment was with the Uniting Church magazine Crosslight.