September 13, 2026 — 5:00am

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Bill Kelty, a mastermind of reforms that set up Australia’s modern economy, says Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers are fuelling One Nation and “insulting” voters by welcoming lower house prices as they preside over a fall in real wages that is making houses even more unaffordable.

The Labor luminary and former union leader made one of the sharpest and broadest critiques of the federal government’s economic record in an interview with this masthead on Thursday, declaring “this country has got real problems” as…

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