Policy for a Prosperous Country: Comments from BCA President Greig Gailey
16 January 2008
Quotes excerpted from two articles profiling the recently elected BCA President Greig Gailey in The Australian and The Australian Financial Review.
[Greig] Gailey is anxious to see a tight first federal budget from the government, with big spending cuts examined. He wants the government to keep an open mind about the tax cuts it promised during the election campaign. ‘Government made the promises and there will be huge pressure on the government to deliver … Just like any business you run, you have to be pragmatic and if circumstances were such that delivery was bad, you would hope the government would be pragmatic enough to consider it. But until you get to the point where those tax cuts are to be delivered, you can’t make that decision.’
From ‘Leader of the Pack Rested and Ready to Roar’ by Annabel Hepworth, The Australian Financial Review, 16 January 2008, p. 11.
‘Some of the issues have been debated ... for a long time. I think a new government will come to many of these issues with a clean slate, with no prior agenda and offer us the opportunity to see some real progress. Some of the issues have been advocated by the council for quite some time ... In our convoluted political system, you almost can't move ahead on many of the key issues without some form of co-operation between state and the commonwealth. And certainly in the last couple of years, that co-operation has been absent.’
From ‘Gailey Greets New Role with Fresh Optimism’ by Teresa Ooi, The Australian, 16 January 2008, p. 31.