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Michael Stutchbury

Slash the red tape smothering growth

The Abundance agenda is being taken on to fix Australia’s housing shortage. It needs to extend to a vigorous supply side deregulation agenda.

Anthony Albanese hasn’t read it. But Jim Chalmers is happy to promote it. The book dividing America’s progressive left chimes with the new conventional wisdom for saving the great Australian dream.

Abundance’s authors, The New York Times journalist Ezra Klein and The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson, style themselves as American political progressives seeking to reclaim supply-side economics from the political right.

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Michael Stutchbury is editor-at-large. He is in his fourth decade of writing for and editing national newspapers. After nearly six years as editor of The Australian, he returned to the Financial Review as editor-in-chief (2011-2024). Email Michael at mstutchbury@afr.com

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