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Post-pandemic, ‘small business fetishism’ could cost us jobs

  • Written by Saul Eslake, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Small business is “the engine room of Australia,” the “backbone of our economy,” the “hope of the side”.

They are the words used by the then treasurer and now prime minister Scott Morrison to justify special treatment for small businesses, an approach shared by leaders in every political party from Lab...

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