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If you want to boost the economy, big infrastructure projects won't cut it: new Treasury boss

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy – in the job for for just weeks after moving across from the department of infrastructure last month – has dismissed talk of spending big on infrastructure in order to escape an economic downturn.

Such calls “sound straightforward, but in practice are difficult to achieve”, he told a Senate...

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