Former Speaker of the house Bronwyn Bishop says the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will require “a free enterprise Australia”.
Ms Bishop said “we need an economic environment where “the individual can take their talents and use them to the best of their ability and where you can take your capital and risk it to employ people and make a profit”. We need an Australia “with a higher moral understanding of what belief is, what truth is, what shame is”.
We need “to utilise our education system to give people opportunities to develop their own thoughts, not to impose a propaganda like climate change,” she told Sky News host Gary Hardgrave. There should be a focus on manufacturing and “cheap electricity to offset the cost of higher wages so things are still affordable”.
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