THE climate adviser, Ross Garnaut, has lashed Australian business for playing a ''spoiler'' role in the carbon price debate, saying it is putting short-sighted ''self-interest'' ahead of the national interest.
He singled out the Business Council of Australia and its president, Graham Bradley, the BlueScope Steel chairman Graeme Kraehe, the BHP Billiton chairman Jacques Nasser and the LNG and coal industries, and accused the business lobby of sliding back to a pre-1980s anti-reform culture that had left Australia with ''the worst productivity in the Western world''.
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