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The Business Council of Australia (BCA) is recommending that government focus on four key functions to secure the economic future of the nation – and here I QUOTE:

“1. The first is direction-setting. It is a role of government to set a vision for the country. This is
fundamental if we are to take the community on the difficult journey of change.

2. Secondly, government needs to develop a sector lens on the economy.

3. Third, government should use what it learns from a sector analysis to move from an intervention and subsidisation role, to a facilitation and coordination role.

4. The fourth responsibility of government is to build the innovation infrastructure needed to support the agility of the Australian economy.”

The BCA is big business in Australia, including the local arms of foreign corporations. Think of it as a jobs club for the privately schooled.

Interpreting their recommendations to government isn’t too hard:

1. Government needs to do something, anything; preferably lower corporate tax rates, reduce the minimum wage, get rid of unions, and stop new any new competition from entering our markets by surreptitious means (actually any means will do), and in a way that doesn’t piss off the voters and let Labor back into power.

2. Government needs to focus on The BCA member’s needs. Bugger the voters that they are supposed to represent under the constitution.

3. The BCA members want even more handouts from government, preferably diverted from government funds currently granted to non-business recipients so that the deficit isn’t impacted too much.

4. All of this should be hidden behind a facade of being ‘innovative’ as a nation, at least while this buzzword still has some currency.

I have chatted to some of the spokespeople that talk up this stuff.

I believe that they actually believe that they are promoting policies which are good for the country.

The rationale that they use is that ‘if business is flourishing then so is the nation’.

But not if it’s an oligarchical business environment, it’s not.

They seem totally unaware that there is not a single concrete proposal in their demands. They are floating a ‘vibe’ only. And in heavy code. Their hope is that the government gets their drift and implements the changes they want to see in the handouts accordingly.

I don’t think this will go well for our supposedly innovative but yet ‘complacent’ nation.