It's time the government stopped trying to run the country like a private company

By Richard Denniss
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:36pm, first published January 30 2015 - 1:59pm

Running a country is nothing like running a business. But if the "Open for Business" Abbott government, which so often frames its policies in corporate language, was to be judged by corporate standards, it would be facing a shareholder revolt.

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