The Coalition is a massive “leaner” not “lifter”

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It is amusing to watch the rusty wheels of politics turning, at the AFR:

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has declared the next election to be a contest over the role of government as he and Scott Morrison warned Coalition MPs to brace for difficult decisions as they start to pare back the billions in financial assistance and stimulus measures.

As Labor took issue with the weekend decision to stop free childcare next month and remove the sector from the JobKeeper scheme, Mr Frydenberg said the election battle between Labor and the Coalition would be one of “limitless providers versus an enabler”.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.