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Stephen Anthony

Green-left politics is trashing our freedoms and prosperity

Australia is held back by a special kind of leftism that is essentially an assault on the fundamental human rights that drive a free-market economy.

Stephen AnthonyEconomist

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Australia’s economic prosperity has always turned on the creativity we all display in our participation in the productive, value-adding voluntary exchanges that underpin our private sector economy.

Value is created on both sides of these voluntary exchanges, so each transaction is wealth enhancing and not some zero-sum redistribution or, worse, state-sponsored confiscation.

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Stephen Anthony is chief economist at Macroeconomics.

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