Former federal treasury head Ken Henry has lashed out at the political and media dysfunction that he says has led to reform paralysis.
The National Australia Bank chairman told a conference in Canberra that “politicians have dug themselves into deep trenches from which they fire insults designed merely to cause political embarrassment”.
“Populism supplies the munitions,” Dr Henry said.
“And the whole spectacle is broadcast live via multimedia, 24/7. The country that Australians want cannot even be imagined from these trenches.”
Dr Henry contrasted politics today with the policy success of years past, even though the contest then was as “adversarial and every bit as partisan” …
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