Govern as fiscal conservatives to revive economic growth
Policy competition over budget repair to help sharpen the economy’s growth prospects and make everyone better off appears to be beyond Australia’s political duopoly.
Anthony Albanese’s promise to have yet another inquiry into unproven allegations of “price gouging” by Coles and Woolworths confirms what we already feared about this election campaign.
Both Labor and the Coalition would rather spend the next five weeks attacking business instead of focusing on the important reforms needed to improve living standards, raise productivity and improve generational inequity for all Australians.
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