Opposition leader Peter Dutton has delivered a stinging criticism of the Labor government’s economic policies and accused it of experimenting with socialism.
Dutton launched salvos at the government’s net-zero policy, near-compulsory multi-employer bargaining laws, and superannuation changes, as well as questioning its commitment to the Stage Three individual tax cuts.
“In his meandering essay, Treasurer Chalmers wrote: ‘This is not just the beginnings of a new economic model, it is democratic reform.’ He wants to ‘build a better capitalism,’” Dutton told The Australian Financial Review Business Summit on March 8.
“Now, Australians can see through that double-speak,” he said. “This government wants to experiment with the same system of socialism which has devastated nations wherever and whenever it has been implemented.”…