What Australia’s election winner should learn from Keir Starmer
The British government admits the “UK has been regulating for risk, but not regulating for growth”. Could Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers ever utter such words for Australia?
The winner of Saturday’s election needs to kick-start growth and can learn from the UK’s assault on red tape. Bethany Rae
Like a big tech algorithm that stimulates dopamine in people’s brains, the political parties honed their campaign pitches on what most pleases financially stretched voters. That is, giving them borrowed government money to soothe the inflation hit to their immediate living standards.
Michael StutchburyEditor-at-largeMichael 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