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The IMF is flashing red lights on Australia’s spending spree

The report is yet another wake-up call for Labor to get on with the pressing task of exercising some budget discipline as it stares down the barrel at a decade of deficits.

A big part of Australia’s economic malaise circles back to the fundamental lack of fiscal responsibility in Canberra.

The International Monetary Fund’s latest financial report card has laid bare the Albanese government’s worsening spending and debt problems.

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