Michael Stutchbury is The Australian

The Australian

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's economics editor. he generally writes from a free market

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 viewpoint, and is critical of a number of the Rudd-Gillard Government's economic policies, particularly on its stimulus packages. and industrial relations.

He has been named as the next editor-in-chief of the Australian Financial Review.

Stutchbury began his journalistic career with the Australian Financial Review. Later, he became a business editor of The Australian and a Washington

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 correspondent during the Clinton Administration's

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 first term before becoming one of the longest serving editors of The Australian.

He also occasionally appears on Insiders, the ABC

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's weekly program on political discussion hosted by Barrie Cassidy

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