It’s always puzzled me that we spend so much time talking about creating jobs, and so little time talking about how we punish businesses when they do.
It’s a perverse version of the carrot and stick approach – huge amounts of effort and public dollars go into programs to generate jobs by incentivising businesses to hire, and at the same time our states and territories wield a stick to financially penalise companies when they do.
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Bran Black is chief executive of the Business Council of Australia
