Opinion

It's time to go to bat for market forces

Simon Cowan
Updated July 2 2021 - 1:39am, first published November 21 2020 - 4:30am
The biggest benefit of trade isn't chiselling out access to distant markets - it's the competition foreign producers bring to domestic markets. Picture: Shutterstock
The biggest benefit of trade isn't chiselling out access to distant markets - it's the competition foreign producers bring to domestic markets. Picture: Shutterstock

Australia suddenly seems optimistic again.

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Simon Cowan

Simon Cowan

Canberra Times columnist

Simon Cowan is research director at the Centre for Independent Studies and a regular columnist for The Canberra Times.

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