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There’s value in big government spending done right

The private-public partnership championed by Anthony Albanese that is transforming the supply chains is a role model for underwriting critical minerals expansion.

Tony BoydContributor

May 26, 2024 – 4.15pm

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The backlash against the federal government’s Future Made In Australia policy conveniently ignores the fact that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has a proven track record of melding government and private sector funding to transform a critical sector of the economy.

Albanese was the driving force behind the Gillard Labor government giving the greenlight to a $570 million taxpayer investment in the Moorebank Intermodal Precinct in 2012.

Tony Boyd is the former Chanticleer columnist. He has more than 35 years' experience as a finance journalist.