The Albanese government has defended its decision to block the Productivity Commission from examining the impact on business of its controversial industrial relations laws, saying it had already commissioned its own review and found nothing untoward.
As business, economists and the opposition expressed disbelief that the government could order a review into improving business dynamism but rule out both industrial relations and tax, Assistant Minister for Treasury Andrew Leigh pointed to the department reviews the government commissioned in the same term of government the IR laws were introduced.
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