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Following Enron’s playbook

Labor plays hide and seek with the debt and deficit

4 January 2025

9:00 AM

4 January 2025

9:00 AM

Given the policies of the Albanese government, it might be that they mistook George Orwell’s 1984 for an instruction manual.

Increasingly, Prime Minister Albanese and his partner in profligacy, Treasurer Jim Chalmers, are engaging in manoeuvres that obscure financial and epistemic reality. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. The budget is balanced.

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