The Prime Minister’s speech to the Australian Financial Review’s business summit last week was a classic of having it both ways, of saying one thing and then immediately saying the opposite.
He declared that he’s “never been caught up in the hoopla” of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” set of ideas and policies which, he said, try to “replace our market-based, business-led growth economic system, with a government-centred reimagination of global capitalism”.
