Former Labor senator Stephen Conroy says it’s time to put Opposition Leader Peter Dutton “in a corner where he belongs” and get on with growing Australia’s economy.
Time to put Dutton ‘in a corner where he belongs’ and ‘get on’ with growing the economy
He said the business community have been crying out for the last five years for a fix on climate and the enterprise bargaining system. “We got the ideologically driven 1980s style thinking of Peter Dutton and the Liberal Party,” Mr Conroy told Sky News Australia.“Ordinary Australians want a chance to increase their real wages.”
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