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What is Rudd's real position on economic reform? : Comments
By Mikayla Novak, published 1/7/2013The return of Kevin Rudd to the prime ministership raises more questions than answers with regard to numerous aspects of policy.
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Note the use of ‘the market’ as the anonymous disguise for big business’ preference for open slather in naming prices and controlling wages. It would be interesting to hear Julie's views on just which Australian industry met the theoretical requirements of an 'open market'.
Note also the complete lack of concern for those thousands of people who had paid employment as a result of the Rudd inspired fiscal stimulis, but who, in the name of free market theory, would otherwise have had to wait until the holy grail of the market ‘returning to the norm’.
People like Julie live in a theoretical world of long term market ideology with little concern for or understanding of the short term realities of life in the job market.