Original sentence: (see: RBA: Bulletin Statistical Tables).After a difficult start, Keating mastered economic policy and was soon acknowledged as the driving political force behind many of the macroeconomic reforms of the Hawke government, including floating the Australian dollar, substantial cuts in tariffs, the deregulation of the banking system and taxation reforms, all of which modernised the Australian economy and increased its competitiveness.However, the beginnings of a recession (of which in 1990 Keating famously said "This is the recession Australia had to have") saw a resurgence in support for the Liberal party, which Keating used in his push for leadership.Just one year previously, under Howard, interest rates in Australia peaked at 13.5%, a very high level.Keating also attacked Howard for allegedly lying to Parliament about the size of the budget deficit that had been left by the outgoing government
Edited sentence: After a difficult start, some believe Keating mastered economic policy as the driving political force behind many of the macroeconomic reforms of the Hawke government, including floating the Australian dollar, substantial cuts in tariffs, the deregulation of the banking system and taxation reforms, all of which modernised the Australian economy and increased its competitiveness.However, the beginnings of a recession (of which in 1990 Keating famously said "This is the recession Australia had to have")(which saw the highest home lending rates in Australian history) saw a resurgence in support for the Liberal party, which Keating used in his push for leadership.Just one year previously, under Howard, interest rates in Australia peaked at 13.5%, a level 4% lower than they would become under Keating.Others believe differently , with the Australian Financial Review publishing an article on July 12th , 1991 - ‘Keating got the economy wrong’