{"id":94473,"date":"2025-08-25T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94473\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:54:06","slug":"aussie-economy-doomed-under-cowardly-albo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94473\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie economy doomed under Cowardly Albo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was the Henry Tax Review, left gathering dust on the shelf.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there is the heavily prescribed Productivity Roundtable, which will do likewise.<\/p>\n<p>A cowardly Albo has ruled everything out. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/nation\/politics\/economy-not-just-numbers-on-a-page-anthony-albanese-sets-economic-reform-guard-rails\/news-story\/25b03b009f08a784bf7c18354c2cec17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Albanese has laid down his conditions for economic \u00adreform in an era of growing polarisation, declaring any policy changes need to transcend \u201cnumbers on a page\u201d and be proven to make a practical difference to the lives of Australians by bolstering aspiration, fairness, opportunity and community.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister argues wage increases \u201care not a dividend of our national prosperity, they are a driver of it\u201d, while declaring there is a \u201cpowerful economic case\u201d for the creation of a universal childcare system.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s the end of it. By making it about individual Australians, reform is a non-starter.<\/p>\n<p>Reform is about the most good for the most people, but it does not care which ones.<\/p>\n<p>Albo is an economic pygmy and backroom bovver boy. He has neither the brainpower to understand the benefits of utilitarian reform nor the spine to execute it.<\/p>\n<p>He is Mr Nice Guy with his hand in everybody\u2019s pocket because he won\u2019t upset anybody.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Aussie economy is doomed under this bloke.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention the democracy as China closes in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was the Henry Tax Review, left gathering dust on the shelf. Now, there is the heavily prescribed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-94473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}