Anthony Albanese’s election victory has prompted all sorts of interesting reactions. Apparently, company boards should now start purging their ranks of “right-wingers”. That’s the view ofAs reported last week in this newspaper, according to Bricknell: “Boards need to pay attention [to the election]. If you’re a die-in-the-ditch, right-wing board member with fixed views about how things were done 15 years ago, your time is nigh.
To most observers that’s a finely balanced outcome, revealing the need for magnanimity and moderation from our political and corporate leaders, rather than the justification for a radical reconstruction of the country.Presumed political purity, not business acumen is now the prerequisite for selection to the board of a large Australian public company.
A candidate for an executive or board position, who said they believed in what until very recently had been a core principle of liberal democracy, namely that all citizens are entitled to equal political rights regardless of their race, would probably never be heard of again. One of the great insights of the keenest observer of the political economy of the 20th century. Joseph Schumpeter, was that big business has a bigger interest in itself than it does in the maintenance of the capitalist system – and the “creative destruction” of capitalism is, in fact, a threat to big business.
LyndaFrench19 Or… Labor now occupies the space between Centre Right and Centre Left, the LNP is far Right. Labor has become the only acceptable party to business of the 2 major parties. See also how people voted.
Please..as if the very ethnically diverse population of Dandenong will ever vote for the Coalition led by this Queensland ex-cop..the African gangs of Dandenong will not take that well..
And mainstream Australian media owned by … was absolutely wrong in bombarding voters with labour negative publicity which ultimately cost the then incumbent government heavily. Time to shed sensational journalism 😀🙏
BTC is not Bitcoin as this case makes clear:
Also there are the Independents which are former Liberal Party members and voters which are now more aligned to business that the remnants of the Liberal Party.
Lol poor old John roskam all those years of careful manipulation of the liberal party via the IPA. You even had ur man as PM! All down the drain. There’s always Sky News!!
Corporate Australia becomes Dutton’s forgotten Australians.