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Labor’s economic agenda finds few friends

Business, big and small, is now united in concern about what many regard as a depressingly counterproductive and backwards-looking strategy from the government.

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Prime Minister Anthony Albanese can’t hide his exasperation with the rising barrage of criticism over his government’s performance. Many people “romanticise the past” , he declared in an unusually tetchy ABC radio interview this week.

“What my government has done is deal with the present and set us up for the future. That’s been our job. But there’s nothing timid about that.

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