It’s the latest smelter to need a government bailout, but Bell Bay has proven why the current industrial and energy policy path will doom Australia’s future.

Michael McLaren says the aluminium smelter was meant to be the poster child for what could be possible under Labor’s energy ideology.

The Minister for Industry and Innovation Tim Ayers has blamed the owner for failing to invest in the corporation.

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