We have to have values. Economics and markets are largely value-free. We have to draw a value line. The values that we need in government should firstly be civic and secondly managerial. We need the certainty and positivism that comes from commonly accepted values.
People are more important than markets.
In an article in the National Business Bulletin the notable West Australian Janet Holmes a Court has said that she was able to rescue her Heytesbury group because she focused on people. If I had gone down the path recommended to me by our bankers, we would not have survived . . . It is people who achieve things, not capital. When I hear the economists appointed by our mega media moguls extolling the latest sackings body count, I am reminded of journalists far from the battle. I think they should descend to the battlefield and smell the suicide, despair, loss of self-esteem and loss of hope before being quite so ready to laud and sanitise sackings.