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Returning to Australia, Hewson worked as an economist for the Reserve Bank of Australia.

From 1976 to 1983 he was employed as an economic advisor to two successive Liberal treasurers ; Phillip Lynch and John Howard.

During this period he developed a keen interest in politics and was determined to enter politics himself.

While a strong Liberal, he was critical of what he saw as the weakness and inconsistency of economic policy under Malcolm Fraser's government.

He was a supporter of some of the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher.