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Albanese says he’s up ‘for big reform’ ahead of productivity roundtable
Prime minister Anthony Albanese said he is up for “big reform” as his government heads into a long-promised productivity roundtable next week. Albanese spoke to RN Breakfast this morning, saying his government had a strong agenda of promises from the last election, but said there is plenty of room for more ideas.
I had a really successful meeting with some business leaders on Monday evening in Melbourne. And some of the ideas that were kicked around there are really positive. They’ll feed into our processes. And that is how good government should operate. We’re an inclusive government. We are up for consultation and we’re up for ideas.
I’m up for big reform. … We are up for big reform, whether it’s strengthening Medicare, the changes to childcare, the benefit to education.
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