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Future Made in Australia is already running off the rails

The Albanese government has fallen into the trap of trying to achieve political wins at high economic cost. And nobody is stopping them.

John KehoeEconomics editor

Aug 7, 2024 – 1.15pm

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Labor’s Future Made in Australia election slogan is already turning into a taxpayer-funded slush fund to spray money around for almost any political objective the Albanese government can think of.

The latest counterproductive idea came last week from one of the government’s usually more economically sensible ministers, Resources Minister Madeleine King.

John Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s first election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury.