'Work from home': Albanese delivers vision for regional Australia | CroweDM
Labor leader Anthony Albanese is calling for a dramatic boost to infrastructure, education and manufacturing to help regional Australia recover from an economic slump he is calling the "Morrison recession".
"Our nation is in the Morrison recession," Mr Albanese says in a draft of the speech, to be delivered in the NSW north coast city of Coffs Harbour on Wednesday morning.Loading One of a series of vision statements, the speech links the lower economic growth in the regions with the trend towards casual work and the decline of manufacturing.
Rather than backing older energy industries in the region such as coal mining or gas production, Mr Albanese says the regions could grow from the adoption of renewable energy.He criticises the NSW government of Liberal Premier Gladys Berejiklian for buying trains from Korea and India, trams from Spain and ferries from Indonesia.
The new statement advances the idea of "smart regionalisation" to encourage growth outside the big cities, although it does not include specific measures with firm promises on new spending or tax policy.
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