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...Why should Albo try to pick winners, when he could ban Shorting outright - Like Korea does.
15/20 stocks being shorted on the ASX are core to the worlds "future facing" industries - Aussies are being taken to the cleaners and its the same global actors - Blackrock, State Street, JPM etc!

and Surprise surprise, Korea is building out their expertise in critical minerals manufacturing...using Australias Gas/LNG to power it up! - Businesses can raise Capital and I acknowledge some may be raising whilst leveraging on a "floaty" share price, but at least all get access to more Capital and a chance to make it succeed. All ships rise.

This is a competitive advantage for a Nation!

There is still other ways for the market to conduct good old fashioned research and analysis into whether the company is robust and worth owning - or not. Its becomes a simpler Binary market. Do I want to buy/own the stock or not....and you can still play derivatives market