Nick Economou was good value

A person who sticks to his area of expertise is always good ; Libby gave the bloke a good go today "Hooray"  . In the raging sea of controversy over whose best to run an economy (Clive Palmer nominates ) his was the voice of,  not just reason, but reasonability.
Having just personally challenged the Liberal party myself today,  to think more clearly about Jeff Kennett eras mistakes , I am aware that too many wealthy and high and predictable margin business people think running an economy is easy. Well it is a lot easier for some who have those margins to play with.
Some of the most productive people in our economy  run on low to negative margins ( agriculture mothers , volunteers,  families).
Premier Kennett , in changing the nature of local government in Victoria,  made the enormous gaff of suggesting farmers were poor businessmen . Victoria has yet to recover from this arrogance and ignorance .
Primary producers know a lot about the environment,  and would keep a lot of Shires from the blatant merrygo round of obfiscation that now reduces environmental planning to largely nuisance value in so many Shires around this Country.
Farmers are not against innovation and lead in many areas of it , even if they often need encouragement to raise the horizon in understanding other industries .