Of all the paragraphs and airtime dedicated to decoding and dissecting the government’s productivity roundtable, it was the Australian Financial Review’s economics editor, John Kehoe, who succeeded in perfectly summing it up in six words: “Modest and predictable steps were taken.”
This was not a sequel to 2022’s Jobs and Skills Summit. The cameras were (mostly) kept out of the room. The unions didn’t get a rails run with pre-determined policy announcements. And business leaders participating in the roundtable were a little more realistic about what they wanted out of three days of gabbing in the Cabinet room.
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