A Trump-proof Australia needs productive industrial relations
The lack of a real election contest over greater workplace flexibility will condemn Australia to lower productivity and leave the nation less protected.
Two months before the 2022 election, then Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott declared that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, ”understands the fundamentals: that to have a job you need a boss and to have a boss you need a thriving business”.
The hope that the Albanese government might work with businesses to help make the economy more competitive and productive did not survive first contact with political reality at the Jobs and Skills Summit three months later.
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