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Nick Hossack

Merit has followed Murray out the door

Yes, the former AMP Chair was out of touch with corporate political correctness. He believed in merit, competition and other sensible and well-tested principles.

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The resignation of AMP chairman David Murray is being characterised as the decline of a man who did not read the times, who was out of touch.

In fact, the style of leadership and strength of David Murray is precisely what is needed in today’s workplaces, a person who can see through the nonsense fads of political correctness.

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Nick Hossack is a public policy consultant, former policy director at the Australian Bankers Association, and former adviser to John Howard.

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