Aussie chickens gather to hatch productivity

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Treasurer Jim “chicken” Chalmers loves to pose as a reformer of great reknown but is just another cookie-cut Canberra immigration sodomite.

Jim Chalmers has issued a plea for a new era of “collaboration and compromise” from politicians, unions and business ­leaders, ­declaring a generational ­approach from all parties is ­needed to secure economic ­reforms that will drive increased productivity and produce a sustainable budget.

…Among the first people invited to the reform roundtable are ­Business Council of Australia chief executive Bran Black, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Andrew McKellar, Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox and Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia executive director Matthew ­Addison.

Four members of the ACTU have been invited: secretary Sally McManus, president Michele O’Neil, assistant secretary Liam O’Brien and assistant secretary Joseph Mitchell.

It is believed that there will be only two ACTU members at the roundtable at any one time.

Other early invitations have been sent to Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood and Australian Council of Social ­Service chief executive Cassandra Goldie.

Who at that table is going to slam his/her fist on the table and demand a massive cut to mass immigration, which is one of only three possible policies to give the nation a productivity boost?

Nobody. And so the great capital shallowing will go on and, as commodity prices crash over the next two years, intensify.

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Who, also, will have the courage to slam their fist on the table and demand that the gas cartel be destroyed, freeing the entire East Coast economy from the energy yoke around its neck?

Nobody.

Who at this summit is going to slam their fist on the table and demand Henry Tax Review reforms?

Nobody.

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This is a fake summit, by fake people, with fake agendas, looking to featherbed their careers.

It is a coop of chickens in dire need of a very large and hungry fox.

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.