Already a subscriber?The Liberal Party’s estrangement from corporate Australia is a dispiriting but textbook example of the triumph of populism over principles that so often prevents us from having sensible conversation about important issues.
Indeed, divestiture is not even something that the Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has proposed although her first big economic plan is to impose price controls on supermarkets to stop so-called corporate “greedflation” . “Ultimately, we want a free market to operate effectively, and a free market is not where consumers are being ripped off,” Dutton said.The Opposition Leader’s views on free markets should be taken with a grain of salt. Mr Dutton is, after all, the man who wants to re-nationalise parts of our energy market by getting taxpayers to foot the bill for hugely-expensive nuclear reactors that are yet to be costed.