The deputy Liberal leader says business needs to be wary about getting too close to the Labor government.
Business leaders should be wary of indulging the Albanese government because Labor will revert to anti-corporate type, Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will warn in a pitch to recapture the Liberal Party’s business heartland.
Ms Ley’s shot across the bows ahead of the summit came as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared he already considered the summit “a success” because the national conversation had shifted to focus on job creation and skills development. “What I do see, though, is that it will provide a focus on jobs and skills about how we lift wages, lift profits, boosting productivity while putting downward pressure on inflation.”No Liberal frontbenchers will attend the two-day summit despite Opposition Leader Peter Dutton being invited. Nationals leader David Littleproud will participate to represent regional Australia.
Ms Ley will say that moves to speed up visa processing times for the backlog of skilled migrants could be done without the need for a summit and challenged the new government to genuinely look at enterprise bargaining in light of business concerns and the fall in new agreements being made.
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