{"id":520209,"date":"2026-03-05T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520209\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:42:20","slug":"business-councils-competitiveness-index-more-of-same-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520209\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Council&#8217;s &#8216;competitiveness index&#8217; more of same rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s been a while since Australia\u2019s worst rent-seeker lobby group, the Business Council of Australia, issued one of its reports calling for company tax cuts and a return to WorkChoices \u2014 the ones dutifully reported by the media as though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2023\/08\/21\/business-council-australia-lies-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">each iteration of the same stuff<\/a> is somehow startlingly new.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So kudos to BCA boss Bran Black for trying something different this week: instead of simply offering up the same rubbish under a different title, he\u2019s repackaged the same old and decidedly non-vintage wine in a different kind of bottle: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bca.com.au\/our-insights\/media-releases\/bca-calls-for-australia-to-be-a-top-10-investment-destination-as-landmark-index-launched\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a competitiveness index<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a while since Australia\u2019s worst rent-seeker lobby group, the Business Council of Australia, issued one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,75736,99,54297,164,5474,3324,5631],"class_list":{"0":"post-520209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bran-black","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-business-council-of-australia","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-investment","15":"tag-productivity","16":"tag-productivity-commission"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}