business mistrust of gillard deepends

Labor's socialist policies are destroying the economy, ruining jobs, harming investment and wrecking industry.

Socialism will never work in a great nation like Australia.

Time to go Gillard and Labor.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/in-depth/business-leaders-warn-of-difficult-relationship-with-gillard-government/story-fn6q7nm8-1226099799454

BUSINESS leaders have slammed the Gillard government's handling of the economy, with corporate captains saying relations are the worst in recent memory with a government that is not on top of major issues.

Speaking at The Australian-Deutsche Bank Business Leaders Forum in Melbourne today, Transurban and incoming Westpac chairman Lindsay Maxsted said issues of both illegitimacy and execution were affecting the government's performance.

"It's probably the most difficult relationship I've seen between business and a federal government," Mr Maxsted said.

He said everything the government was planning seemed to be about short-term gain, as opposed to what was in the long-term interests of the country.

Qantas chairman Leigh Clifford said the government did not have a good grasp of the major issues facing the economy, which he said were industrial relations, infrastructure, carbon and mining taxes and skills shortages.

"I'm not sure, on all of those counts that the government is on top of what needs to be addressed," Mr Clifford said.

Santos chief executive David Knox said business was craving certainty to invest.

Former Telstra chief Ziggy Switkowski, who is the chancellor of RMIT University, said there was a "whiff of illegitimacy" about the Labor government, in part due to how the carbon tax has been introduced, following an election campaign pledge by Prime Minister Julia Gillard that no such tax would be imposed.

The carbon tax is a prime reason the mistrust between government and business is high.