Fleecing the future
Labor dips its fingers in the Future Fund to finance its vanity energy schemes
Jim Chalmers is hardly the first Australian Treasurer to be wounded by the underappreciation of his genius by the world at large.
Even so, his characterisation John Howard and Peter Costello as “unhinged and ill‑informed” seemed particularly ungracious. There wouldn’t bet be a sovereign wealth fund for him to raid of Howard and Costello hadn’t set one up.
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