Industry minister Tim Ayres’ first National Press Club address was a full-throated argument in support of “activist industrial policy” as core to economic policy and economic resilience.
The minister had just returned to Canberra on Wednesday morning after announcing a $2 billion bail-out of a Rio Tinto aluminium smelter in Queensland.
Activist industrial policy is rational response by governments around the world to troubled times. Australia is no different, Senator …
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