Australia faces a infrastructure crisis. The fix? Remove politicians

For a country obsessed with increasing productivity, we have quite a few blind spots. Our anti-defense efficiency policies are not being examined. The poor quality of business management in Australia receives little attention. The outsized, unforeseen impact of mining productivity is never mentioned outside the Productivity Commission reports.

To this list you can also add infrastructure construction, an area of ​​huge government spending and very low productivity. It’s been nearly a decade since Marion Terrill fought a long, lonely battle on infrastructure spending. pointed out Australia’s major infrastructure projects tend to be extraordinarily persistent and significantly over budget.