Liveras outlines his manufacturing vision

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He may not know what he’s up against but he’s persistent:

Former Dow Chemical chief Andrew Liveris says the coronavirus crisis has created a generational opportunity to reset Australia’s industrial policy, get away from “developing reports” on the subject and recreate the country’s manufacturing base.

…“What we have done is develop the sectors we should scale in. We’ve done that through inventorying all of the capability and as we look at those sectors and where we’re good and where we’re not good, we see massive inefficiency,” he said.

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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.