One point 45 million low-skilled migration in three years. SIX times higher than it should be, nearly TWICE as high as the Rudd onslaught. With over-investment in the housing bubble still being firm national policy.

That's the main answer to Labor's productivity "puzzle" right there, but it's Not Allowed at the performative roundtable. if you protest, Burke and Aly will smear you as a racist, as un-Australian. They even got the ABS to write to journalists, trying to intimidate them out of any immigration criticism.

Is because it's Friday that we are seeing "puff" pieces of opinions?

The author asks if the productivity summit is "a political show with no substance".

He states "Unwisely, the coalition opposition is participating in the summit party" and adds " the Opposition should have run their own summit".

He concludes, however, "the Albanese government - ...is focused, strategic, networked and politically skilled - and wins".

It begs the question - what is the author's point? Won't the summit only make the government even more focused, strategic, networked and politically skilled?

Was Scott not invited to the summit?

“Too often during the 2025 election we saw the coalition get its policy cues from the government and not just match the government's policies and spending sprees but sometimes promise them even more”.

That sums up the uniparty. There is no opposition in Australia. The very fact that O'Brien was mixed up in the Labor talkfest is a disgrace. With his sort, and Ley, the coalition will be between a Liberal and Labor.

Treasurer Charmless's intended version of “capitalism” is similar to the China model, and his Dear Leader is chock-a-block up Xi. The intention to turn Australia into an authoritarian hell is so overt, that voters at the last election must have wanted it - or, they are even more gormless than I think they are.

And all the non-politicians at the ‘summit’, big business, bureaucrats etc, are just for show. Also fools, they think there will be something in it for them, when everything that Albanese stages is all about entrenching his ultra-left regime.

“ …the Opposition should have run their own summit”, should it? What's left of the “opposition” couldn't run a chook raffle, as their election campaign and pathetic new “leader” show.

Australia is well and truly rooted. Australians have allowed politicians to become their masters, not their servants.

I do hope that indeed there is no substance!

"Productivity" is a code-name for removing the human touch,
either replacing people with machines and/or turning people into machines.

For what?

For more low-quality products and services, lasting less so more can be produced, for more anonymous impersonal and busy faces, for not being served or being dis-served by machines, or for saving the producer's time by customers being told to do-it-yourself, so they waste their own time which is not accounted for. All for greed, including the greed for more taxes.

I do hope the author is right and this 3-day conference is only for political show!

"Productivity" is a code-name for removing the human touch,
Yuyutsu,
That too but the main goal is to garner sufficient funding to increase the Public Service aka Labor vote base.

Dear Indyvidual,

Oh well, it's OK if these and other beggars get their pound of meat, if only they can do so without disturbing us - and if conferences is what appeases their boredom then let them have these conferences too...