Last thing Australia needs 'is another car industry', says MCA boss


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Instead, Ms Constable said Mr Albanese should focus on "supply-side issues", such as easing the regulatory burden on investment and industrial relations; "halving" environmental approval times; ensuring "competitive taxation" at both Commonwealth and state levels, and; "making sure climate and energy policies are brought together, so they don't increase costs on business and consumers". Rather than adopt an isolationist approach to the growing global wave of industry support - a trend Mr Albanese is seeking to categorise as the "new competition", rather than old-school protectionism - Australia must work with other nations and markets, Ms Constable said. "We need to…

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