When the IMF put out its January update to the October World Economic Outlook this week, there was actually precious little in it about Australia.

Just one mention to be precise. But were you to read some of the commentary, you would think Australia was the focus.

One of the funniest things about Australian media is the desperate lengths that will be made to suggest an international event or report is actually about Australia and that the Albanese government is being warned or lectured to, despite nothing of the sort occurring.

In the IMF update, the one mention of Australia came in a sentence in which the fund did a bit of a cooks’ tour of inflation.

It noted “Australia and Norway are also projected to see some........

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