Business can’t fool itself about Chalmers’ roundtable
Corporate Australia must push hard on the ambitious tax, industrial relations and regulatory reform agenda that is needed to fix the nation’s economic malaise.
A month out from Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Economic Reform Roundtable, Alan Joyce is cautioning business groups to enter the three-day policy summit with their eyes wide open to avoid getting played by the Albanese government again.
The former Qantas chief executive told The Australian Financial Review on Tuesday how the scales fell from his eyes on the first day of the September 2022 Jobs and Skills Summit. Corporate leaders had not been invited to participate in a genuine dialogue about Australia’s economic future, he realised. They had been roped in to give the impression that businesses supported Labor’s pre-ordained union-friendly re-regulation of the workplace system.
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