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Is Katy Gallagher tough enough on spending to be finance minister?

The Canberran is responsible for the expenditure side of the budget. But that is at a 40-year high and there is no plan to rein it in.

John KehoeEconomics editor
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers have copped flak from budget watchers for overseeing the biggest increase in federal spending for a first-term government since Labor’s Gough Whitlam in the 1970s.

But another senior Labor minister has largely escaped scrutiny.

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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. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jkehoe@afr.com
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