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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (Image: AAP/David Crosling)

Taxpayers face a new era of costly manufacturing protectionism as Labor’s Future Made In Australia takes off and the government continues to bail out mendicant multinationals to the tune of billions of dollars.

South Australia’s Whyalla Steelworks, now in administration, got $2.4 billion in February from the Commonwealth and South Australian governments. Grubby multinational Trafigura, via its Nyrstar arm, got $135 million from the federal, Tasmanian and South Australian governments. Equally grubby multinational Glencore has just got $600 million from the federal and Queensland governments. And that’s on top of handouts for so-cal

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