‘Standard practice’: summiteers play down Treasury leak
Economists and business groups joined the Prime Minister to insist that an upcoming economic round table meeting could still produce great ideas.
The leaked treasury advice showed a list of proposals to be reviewed by the cabinet after the meeting of work, union and other leaders at a productivity round table meeting on Tuesday.
According to ABC, they had suggestions to accelerate approval times for housing and reduce environmental bureaucracy.
Prime Minister Anthony Rejected that the result of the summit was locked before the start of the summit.
“You expect the treasury to advise on a forum on the economy,” he said on Thursday to journalists at Brisbane.
“Next week, people are an opportunity for people to develop their ideas and develop policies, and this is really constructive.”
Before the three -day summit, the government has made major changes in some regions, including tax policies, despite the calls for Australia to increase the delayed productivity rates.
Independent economist Saul Meslake said that the leaked document had to be ignored and an agreement was reached on the result of the round table.
AAP said, bir Bringing a briefing for serious discussions or speeches he may have the minister, ”AAP said.
“They did not think how to respond to some ideas marked by the participants to the top of the Treasury at least.”
Meslake said that the advice should not be read as certain policies in which a green light obtains a green light.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers also rejected the concerns that the results of the summit had previously opened.
“What has been reported today are only a few of the many ideas and all of them welcome to the table,” he said.
Opposition leader Sussan Ley, the coalition will examine the recommendations from the round table, but the event was concerned about how to deal with, he said.
Orum I wonder that the people who join this round table floor really waste their time and waste it was wasted or wasted, or he said.
“What we will not do is to accept an agenda that increases taxes to hardworking Australians, especially what the government promises to do exactly.”
Innes Willox, General Manager of Australian Industry Group, said the round table would be a “old moment için for reform.
AAP said, “To give advice to the government is the role of the Treasury and the situation here – and we should not assume that it is automatically a government policy. They are doing their jobs.”
“Although the round table of the next week cannot get an opportunity and consensus for the government, it will provide clear understanding of the great difficulties we face in productivity and investment.”
Some of the reason why the increase in productivity is so weak is that competition has decreased since the mid -2000s and Australia costs $ 3000 per person. in a report It was released on Thursday.
Report writers Jonathan Hambur and Owen Freestone could increase productivity by one to three percent if Australia had returned to the place where it was twenty years ago.
The Productivity Commission has published its final report before the summit and called for a major change in cooperation and preventive health investment between a national screening system for care workers.
Commissioner Alison Roberts said Care is a rapidly growing sector and that proposed reforms will try to break the government’s silent approach to decision -making.
The interim report invites the government to better align quality and security regulations throughout the maintenance economy.
This may include an aerodynamic national opening process for the workers, NDIs, veterans care and early childhood education sector.
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