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The Future Fund is Australia's rainy day fund. It has now become a political football (www.abc.net.au)
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The federal government's decision to have the fund invest in housing and green energy has ruffled Coalition feathers.

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But [treasurer Jim Chalmers] has broken a bipartisan practice that had lasted 18 years: resisting the temptation to ask the fund to do anything other than chase financial returns.

It opens up a debate about what Australia does, and should do, with the hundreds of billions of dollars it has squirrelled away.

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[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

It’s always been a football in that LNP and now Labor want it to solve investment issues. Same with Super.