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Alexander Sanchez

Why green aluminium pushes us towards Argentine Peronism

Both sides of politics want us to believe that redirecting prosperity to a preferred sector somehow represents a growth strategy.

Across political lines a disconcerting trend is emerging – making a virtue of the idea that taking from prosperity and redirecting it to a politically preferred sector somehow represents a growth strategy.

This is just Peronist wine siphoned into new bottles. And it’s not in keeping with our reformist sensibilities.

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Alex Sanchez is an economist and former senior adviser to the Albanese government and formerly General Manager of Policy at the Insurance Council of Australia.

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