OPINION: The task of cutting through thickets of rhetoric to find consensus may end up with one of the more retiring figures at the jobs summit.
.” The lesson from the 18th-century Scottish economist and moral philosopher is that “we need to be comfortable with the challenge that deploying capital presents” – that is, “the cognitive dissonance that allows us to invest in our home country [while] we can also take advantage of investment opportunities overseas.
It traverses the usual suspects – tight labour market, sagging productivity, declining real wages, and chronic skill shortages. It’s a dismal prospect.Striking a bright note, however, the Treasury paper says there’s a “huge opportunity to maximise jobs and opportunities from the increasing use of renewable energy, tackling climate change, digitalisation, growth in the care economy and developing our advanced manufacturing capabilities.
Discussing these issues will be a group of executives from dress circle Australian corporates like BHP, Telstra, Toll, Qantas, Coles and Atlassian. Government heavies will include Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Chalmers, O’Connor, Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke and Immigration Minister Clare O’Neil.who was active in union and federal politics for 14 years.
He has played an active role in the superannuation industry, and in 2020 Combet was appointed to Scott Morrison’s National COVID-19 Co-ordination Commission to provide “strategic and policy advice”. In effect, this was all about securing better business-union relations at the height of the pandemic.He joined the NCCC after helping then-industrial relations minister Christian Porter and Morrison to devise the $90 billion JobKeeper program.
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