Commentary
The latest five-year review by the Australian Productivity Commission (PC) is a historically weak piece of analysis compared to previous reports, perhaps as a result of government pressure.
If you read between the lines on Treasurer Jim Chalmers’s recent comments, it appears the Commission is to sing its swan song sooner rather than later.
In his recent The Monthly magnum opus, Chalmers promises to “renew and revitalise the Productivity Commission as a powerful think tank advising the government on productivity, as well as prosperity and progress more broadly.”
Prosperity and productivity go hand in hand, but what is “more broadly” doing attached to it, as well as to “progress?”…