There is only one mantra for Australia at present; "Growth, Investment, Jobs".
This was drummed into my head when I was a lowly stoker in the Geoff Kennett ship of state in Victoria.
Each and every policy proposal, plan, regulation, idea and action was measured by asking the simple question; "what does XXX do for Growth, Investment and Jobs?". If the answer for any of them was in the negative, we didn't do it. Simple.
Clearly the Greens don't want to care about this because their proposal negatively impacts all of the above. I'm not sure if the current Labor opposition or Government understands it either. The coming recession should concentrate their minds on those three things.
On a related topic, if I had unlimited free time, it would be interesting to see the statistics on GA, because using GDP numbers the sector should probably be 50% larger if it had kept up with the rest of the economy over the last ten years. That would quantify what the dead hand of CASA has cost us.