Our cities and the debt debate both need renovations

By Richard Denniss
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:36pm, first published October 9 2015 - 5:57pm

Opposition leader Bill Shorten's announcement this week that he wants to spend $10 billion infrastructure is a welcome sign that the political tide has turned. His admission that building the infrastructure we need will require greater public borrowing is long overdue in Australian political debate.

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