Free trade is overrated and collective ownership is underrated. It’s not the lefties and the greenies saying that, that’s what the Coalition government and some of the biggest businesses in Australia are saying.
While most people pretend to support free trade “in principle”, in practice most of them lose their enthusiasm.
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