Long-term readers of MB will recall Martin “Parko” Parkinson, the roaring hypocrite who spent much of his time whining about poor productivity in various senior roles while making it much worse himself.
Today he returns to lord it over us all with lies.
Former top public servant Martin Parkinson has warned Labor and the Coalition they must stop lying to voters about the scale of the problems facing the country and develop coherent policies to get living standards growing again.
In a rare interview, Parkinson hit out at Labor and the Coalition for their lack of ambition and populist policies across tax, education and climate change ahead of next week’s federal budget.
“We’ve had no serious reform in this country for a quarter of a century. So there’s enough blame to go around on both sides of politics,” he told The Australian Financial Review.
…Parkinson, the chancellor of Macquarie University and one of the three co-authors of Labor’s migration system review in April 2023, warned the government and the opposition’s policies to cap international student numbers were misguided.
Really, Parko? We all know the primary cause of crashed productivity and living standards is the mass immigration-led labour market expansion economic model that causes capital shallowing.
Let’s not pretend it can be fixed. No reform would enable investment fast enough to keep pace with runaway immigration.
Critical to this slow-motion economic train wreck is the role of the universities, where Parko works.
He occasionally reappears like this to reinforce the tertiary sector’s interests and ensure that no harm can come to the flow of foreign students central to the total destruction of Australian productivity and living standards.
Then he fades away again on his university sinecure like so many failed political operatives before him.
Cut immigration if you want to lift living standards.
