Opinion

Corporate Australia can’t let Albanese brush reform under the carpet

Business needs to get more on the front foot in calling out the policy and political class failure that most media coverage has normalised.

Michael StutchburyEditor-at-large

Sep 20, 2024 – 12.13pm

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Anthony Albanese easily brushed aside the simmering corporate dissatisfaction over his government at the Business Council of Australia’s annual dinner. But that can’t be the end of it.

Tension ran through the CEO crowd on Wednesday night following The Australian Financial Review’s front page story questioning the peak big business lobby group’s effectiveness. Suggestions that BCA chief executive Bran Black would “shirtfront” the prime minister ratcheted it up again.

Michael Stutchbury is editor-at-large. He is in his fourth decade of writing for and editing national newspapers. After nearly six years as editor of The Australian, he returned to the Financial Review as editor-in-chief (2011-2024).