‘Big shrinking joke': Andrew Bolt torches Labor's economic roundtable as a ‘fizzer'
'It started out a month ago being a summit about everything that might make us richer ... it turned into a free-for-all about what taxes could go up,' Mr Bolt said.
'What a fizzer it's already shaping up to be.'
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