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Their biggest challenge? Avoiding a recession

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

Albo, or Plibersek, or whoever turns out to be the next Labor leader, might have had a lucky accident. Usually, it’s Labor that inherits an economy turning down.

This time, it’s the Coalition. And because of regular updates from the Reserve Bank and the Bureau of Statistics strikingly at odds with their public position that the economy...

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