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Vital Signs: yes, we need to make things in Australia, but not like in the past

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Much of the focus of Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese’s budget reply speech was around Labor’s proposal to expand childcare subsidies – a policy with some flaws but which moves in the right direction.

Labor’s plan to modernise the electricity grid by setting up a “Rewiring the Nation Corporation”...

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