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Productivity Commission shines light on economic costs just as Whitlam wanted

Before riding in on a white horse to stage an ‘ESG takeover’, critics should take more than a cursory glance at the work the nation’s economic think tank actually does.

Danielle Wood and Alex Robson

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You have to have a thick skin in public policy. Most slights or even misinterpretations of policy positions we simply ignore.

But Jeremy Cooper’s fundamental misrepresentation of the Productivity Commission’s work repeats a myth about our organisation that warrants a response.

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Danielle Wood is the chairwoman of the Productivity Commission.
Alex Robson is deputy chairman of the Productivity Commission

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