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ECONOMY
  • 1983 Wages Accord improved economic growth without inflation.
  • Modernised the national economy, integrated it into the global economy, and diversified Australia's export base.
  • Comprehensive tax reform reducing the top marginal rate and introducing capital gains tax.
ENVIRONMENT
  • Stopped the Tasmanian Gordon-below-Franklin dam project.
  • The World Heritage Properties Conservation Act 1983 gave the Commonwealth control over State heritage sites.
GLOBAL INITIATIVES
  • Developed closer ties with the United States, Russia, China, Japan and South-East Asia.
  • Supported international pressure on South Africa to overturn its apartheid regime.
  • Established APEC - the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum.
SOCIAL SECURITY
  • Established Medicare.
  • Improved social security benefits to the children of low-income families.
EQUITY
  • Outlawed sex discrimination in the workforce.
  • Established the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) as the peak national policy and administrative agency for Indigenous Australians.
EDUCATION
  • Reformed Australia's education, training, and university system.
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