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Maurice Newman, the Abbott Government’s hand-picked business advisor, is a curious beast. For years he has bemoaned excessive government spending and waste, and yet now he has thrown his support behind a high speed rail (HSR) link between Melbourne and Sydney:
Dr Newman said the high-speed rail link was an “idea whose time had come” and it could be achieved using Japanese technology and capital…
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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