will promise business leaders cheaper energy prices and less government interference under the Coalition, pledging to stay out of the way of employment and profit growth through a simplified industrial relations system.
“The Coalition understands the critical role that small businesses will play in helping to lift productivity and living standards in the decades ahead,” he will tell COSBOA’s annual summit in Sydney.“The government’s ignorance of, and ideological opposition towards, small business is exposed in its industrial relations agenda. The new laws make an IR system steeped in bureaucratic complexity even more bureaucratically complex.
A year out from the next election, Mr Dutton will use the speech to call for sustainable wage growth delivered through productivity enhancements, saying Labor only seeks wage increases knowing someone else must foot the bill. “With nuclear, we can maximise the highest yield of energy per square metre and minimise our environmental footprint,” he will say.
Mr Dutton says it is bizarre that Australia is the only top 20 economy globally without domestic nuclear power in place or plans for its development.He will call on business leaders to speak up in their own interest, and not fear public criticism or social media insults, adding: “I meet with CEOs and chairs in private who vigorously express their frustration about the government’s damaging policies.