The Bug invited Terri Tory, a regular columnist with the national broadshit, The Australian, to assess the current relationship between the nation’s big business sector and the Albanese Government following a very public disagreement about industrial relations policy in the past week.

The Business Council of Australia (BCA) should hang its head in shame at the missed opportunity it tolerated at its annual networking dinner on Tuesday night.

Sure, BCA chief executive Bran Black (right, at left in main picture) gave out advance copies of his speech taking Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (sort of left, at right in main picture) and his government to task for its industrial relations policies and its raft of new anti-business laws just as my employer News Crap Australia does every day.

But when it came time to deliver his remarks at the dinner he failed to follow through and went to water when he had the chance to advocate a vote for Peter Dutton and the Liberals come the next federal election – as my employer does every day.

With weak leaders like that, Australian big business is in deep trouble.

There is so much more Mr Black could have said to Prime Minister Albanese’s face, since the PM was guest of honour at the shindig.

He only needed to read my columns and those of other Righters in The Australian any day of the week for a script.

For starters there’s all the onerous legislative demands big business is required to comply with even before its starts turning a quid.

For instance, in a true market economy why should any government mandate the payment of wages? Surely just having a job should be reward enough?

As for Labor’s new “same job, same pay” laws, they are just more lefty woke red tape that will drive business out of business and job holders out of jobs.

What’s wrong with “same job, different pay”? It’s what applies to all of us at News Crap Australia.

We all do the same job – campaign daily against Labor – but naturally have differently sized pay packets.

On the other side of the ledger, why should big business pay more tax – or any tax for that matter? If you want to start talking about rampant socialism, business tax scales are the place to start.

Just look at how Labor wants to soak the mining industry even though it’s one of the bright spots in our economy.

Every hour of every day real Aussie heroes and living saints like Gina Rinehart and many other mining company leaders dig up stuff in the ground that belongs to all Australians and flog it off overseas unprocessed to make squillions of dollars for themselves and their shareholders.

Once overseas it’s used to make things that we once made here in Australia before our very smart manufacturing industry leaders discovered the slave labour wages paid by their counterparts in other nations. That’s allowed Australian consumers to buy overseas goods made from Australian resources at the same price or higher than they once paid for locally made items, plus business gets to make bigger profits.

With that sort of foresight it’s no wonder our big business CEOs enjoy annual pay rises that are sometimes 10 times those of their average workers, or their ex-workers now bludging on the dole.

Yet the BCA leadership still has a lot to learn about dealing with governments, especially Labor governments.

It’s hard not to think that maybe the weakness shown on Tuesday night by Mr Black and others at the dinner are systemic failings built into the BCA.

After all, the BCA is just an acronym for the ABC. I rest my case.

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