Tiny Tim scurries for cover on wage smashing IR reforms

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Few have done more to damage the Australian national interest than “Tiny” Tim Wilson. After years of poisoning the science of climate change, enjoying red carpet rides into positions of power he wasn’t qualified for, distracting the nation from historic policy reform with marginal social issues, running corrupt bucket shops to get elected, and lying on his electoral posters about which party he stood for, the bleachers today get a modicum of revenge. At the AFR:

Labor pounced on the push on Monday, especially that to exempt small and medium businesses from unfair dismissal laws, as a return to “key elements of WorkChoices”.

Liberal MP Tim Wilson, who helped arrange a business briefing for colleagues on industrial relations when Parliament last sat, said no-one was trying to undermine Scott Morrison’s edict that any policy changes must be evidence based, not ideological.

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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.