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The economics committee has moved on to infrastructure. Should we be spending more to pump prime the economy?
Philip Lowe says if the economy disappoints next year this is a lever that could be pulled.
He says there is limited capacity for big projects in cities like Sydney, but there could be maintenance programs and smaller scale interventions, like repairs.
The country should be looking for other levers and this is one potentially we could pull, Lowe says.
The Labor MP Peta Murphy is trying…
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