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Morrison wants to unleash economy's 'animal spirits' and foreshadows new look at industrial relations

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Morrison wants to unleash economy's 'animal spirits' and foreshadows new look at industrial relationsPrime Minister Scott Morrison will lay out economic policies "to get Australians off the economic sidelines and on the field again" on Monday. Dean Lewins/AAP

Scott Morrison will commit to getting consumers, business and investors “off the economic sidelines and on the field again” in his first major domestic speech of the new term.

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