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Here’s hoping ScoMo’s new consensus with the unions is not what it appears

By Graham Young - posted Thursday, 28 May 2020


Again, they have no interest in the flexible, human-centred industrial relations system we need.

At least Morrison pays lip service to the right principles. The most encouraging part of his speech was when he said growth depended on the "[v]alue created by establishing successful products and services, the ability to be able to sell them at a competitive and profitable price and into growing and sustainable markets. It's economics 101".

That's better than the vacuous nonsense we get from market economists that increased spending equals economic growth.

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So hopefully PM ScoMo has a plan in mind that doesn't really involve the union movement agreeing with the employers that after a few superficial changes business will pretty much continue as pre-COVID.

The key to whether he is serious is exactly how the terms of reference are framed, who Christian Porter's off-siders are, and what percentage of each committee is drawn from serious members of the small to medium business community.

If these lack substance, then it will be conclusive – the roundtables are just an attempt to wedge Labor moving the game back to the parliament providing cover for a failing economy.

I've got my fingers crossed. This is one crisis that should not go to waste.

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This article was first published in The Spectator.



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