The Albanese government’s Future Made in Australia agenda has opened a “backdoor” to union corruption and lacks the pace and detail of competing global efforts, business groups claimed on Thursday.
At a Canberra hearing on the legislation to establish a National Interest Framework to guide multi-billion-dollar investments, the nation’s business lobby offered in principal support – breaking from the federal Coalition.
But the groups pushed the Senate to make key changes to the Future Made in Australia (FMiA) bill, including watering down a labour standards requirement for the government support.
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