The Spectator Australia’s Alexandra Marshall says “these things are never gifts” amid Australian mining mogul Andrew Forrest investing $744 million to rebuild Ukraine’s economy.
“This money is going into the Ukraine-Australia green growth fund which they’re expecting to top a $150 billion,” Ms Marshall told Sky News host Cory Bernardi.
“The idea is to rebuild Ukraine and to quote them the ‘communist crap infrastructure’, now that’s fine to get rid of the old infrastructure but they want to replace it with solar panels and wind turbines. “Now the idea is to make Ukraine the post child for the green digital growth inclusive economy, and we have to remember the last poster child for this movement was Sri Lanka and we all know how that ended up for Sri Lanka.
“So, I don’t think I’d be very pleased if I was Ukraine for this money coming because the future if its anything like Sri Lanka is not going to be much of an improvement.”
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