‘Fear of zombie companies’: Productivity Commission CEO wary of ‘Made in Australia Act’



Productivity Commission CEO Danielle Wood has delivered a grave warning about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s ‘Made in Australia Act’.

“She’s raised a reservation that does exist within the business community,” Sky News Political Reporter Cam Reddin told host Erin Molan.

“The fear of zombie companies.

“Essentially, ones that you prop up with government money but as soon as the subsidies fall away that business just falls apart, it can’t survive on its own.

“She’s worried about that happening in this case and flagged that publicly.”

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25 thoughts on “‘Fear of zombie companies’: Productivity Commission CEO wary of ‘Made in Australia Act’”

  1. Remember those dangerous, over-priced rust buckets our car industry made when it lived protected from reality by government? The car makers and unions did very well. Car buyers paid too much for cars that were 10, 20, and , even 30 years behind automotive technology. Pathetic drum brakes, goat cart rear suspension, zero rust protection in doors and floor pans and not even a heater in base models. But that is where Albanese wants to return when unions were all powerful and the public all victms.

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  2. "We've done more than almost every other country to make up for the negative elements of it…" Have we? Really? Howard wouldn't even apologies on behalf of the government. He certainly didn't do anything to make up for it.

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