Has Tim Wilson heard of the i-n-t-e-r-n-e-t?

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It’s new and really cool:

Liberal MP Tim Wilson has called on Bill Shorten to sack Labor frontbencher Andrew Leigh for talking down Australia’s economy in an opinion piece in the New York Times.

Mr Wilson said “bagging Australia’s economy” in the United States would deter much needed investment.

“Bill Shorten can’t have both: it’s workers and jobs, or Dr Andrew Leigh’s job security. It’s time Bill Shorten sacked Andrew Leigh.”

Anybody, anywhere can read anything they like about Australia all day and all night on the i-n-t-e-r-n-e-t. Should the world press be sacked? Every Australian with an honest comment? Shut social media too! Should every person on Planet Earth have their eyes put out to protect Australian capital imports?

Go back to your climate change atavism, Timmy, and leave the economy to the grown-ups.

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And with that, I leave you for the week. I cannot abide reading another nation-destroying pychopath, intellectual phony, hypocrite, carpet-bagger, dunderhead or plain wanker this week.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.