Sense from the business peak body today in seeking to push back the pork:
The Business Council of Australia has called on the Abbott government to scrap plans to potentially muzzle and water down the independence of Infrastructure Australia, the leading public advisor on nation-building projects.
The council, which is playing a major role in the government’s audit commission, insists planned changes to Infrastructure Australia must ensure it remains free of political interference.
The BCA push, in a submission released on Monday, supports the head of Infrastructure Australia, Michael Deegan, who blasted Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss last month for proposed changes that would give him ministerial power to dictate entire classes of projects to be spared from the advisory body’s scrutiny.
The better the infrastructure investment, the greater the productivity dividend, the less wages will need to correct in the post mining adjustment.
