This is right, but for the wrong reason.
Former Liberal treasurer Peter Costello has accused the Productivity Commission of failing to use its statutory independence to tell “inconvenient truths” to the Albanese government about the causes of the nation’s waning productivity, declaring the agency had become “politically correct”.
Blaming the “arcane” award system for a raft of big employers underpaying workers, Mr Costello is questioning why participants at the government’s recent productivity reform roundtable did not raise the impact of workplace relations policy on productivity.
