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The POD is the Coalition run a more negative campaign, focusing on the extremely high interest rates at the time. This would be broadly similar to the campaign that was employed in the South Australian state election in the previous year. The result on the election held on the 24th of March is that the Coalition wins a large victory with about 54% of the two party preferred vote. So Andrew Peacock becomes the 24th Prime Minister of Australia. In OTL according to Paul Kelly in his book the End of Certainty Labor was extremely behind in the opinion polls in the months before the 1990 election and the Liberals not deciding to adopt the extremely successful campaign that the state Liberals in South Australia. Allowed Labor to win a narrow victory in the 1990 federal election in OTL.

How would be a Peacock Coalition government be like compared to the last years of the Hawke Government and the Keating government were in OTL?
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