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Cabinet papers: Secrets behind illegal boat arrivals revealed
It was a difficult year for the Howard Government, as it implemented the biggest tax reforms of a generation in the GST, copped blow back over rising petrol prices, prepared for potential terror attacks at the Sydney Olympics, while it consolidated its political power after surviving a near loss in the 1998 election.
The Cabinet was focused almost entirely on domestic issues. There was no hint in security papers presented to it of the terror that was looming in September…
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