Such a Team! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Up until this point I’ve reserved judgment on the Albanese government, largely out of a lack of real interest in the intellectual squalor of Australian public life but also because the Morrison government buried us under a mountain of debt that I find unpleasant to contemplate. Having caught up with the latest Treasurer’s economic statement, all my worst fears about the Albanese government have been confirmed. They have no serious economic agenda for the country and appear to have learnt nothing from their last term in office.

Labor’s economic plan is a witch’s brew of unfunded social spending, discredited industry policy and billions of dollars in subsidies for economic parasites in the renewables industry, all overlaid with a veneer of unseemly class warfare rhetoric. If implemented, Labor’s plan will damage productivity and wages growth, and the worst part of it all is they’re either too economically illiterate, too paid-off or too dishonest to care.

Treasurer Dr…