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Chris Minns is just another government-for-government hack.
Senior ministers in the NSW government made three major announcements in the Hunter over the last week, while the Premier’s headline announcement at the state Labor conference earlier this month was the unveiling of a $12 billion, train manufacturing facility for the region.
The pursuit of a deal with the federal government to jointly-fund the continued operation of the region’s Tomago aluminium smelter is also being driven by anxiety over what job losses would mean for Labor’s support.
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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.
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