Albo’s economic report card: Must try harder to secure our future

Can Anthony Albanese’s government walk and chew gum at the same time? Should be able to, provided it stops trying to work both sides of the street. As I wrote on Wednesday , the most urgent economic and political issue facing the government is the cost-of-living crisis. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen But let’s get real. Everyone may be up in arms about the cost of living, but fixing it is standard stuff for the managers of the economy. We can be sure it will be fixed soon enough. As we know from our own lives, we often let the urgent take priority over the more important, and that’s what this government…