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No phones allowed: What’s really going on at Labor’s roundtable

Michael Read
Foreign affairs and defence correspondent
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When the nation’s powerbrokers filed into Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Economic Reform Roundtable this morning, they left behind sunlight and handed over their phones, as everyone must when they enter the cabinet room at Parliament House.

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is the foreign affairs and defence correspondent, reporting from Parliament House, Canberra. He was formerly economics correspondent. He joined the Financial Review in 2021 from the Reserve Bank of Australia. Reach Michael securely @michaelread.14 on Signal. Email Michael at michael.read@afr.com
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