‘Incredibly tough': Calls for PM to address over-regulation and over-taxation in business
This comes amid Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's address at Australia's Economic Outlook 2025.
'It's an incredibly tough environment,' Mr Wilson told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio.
'What we need the government to do is to not overtax and overregulate – and that's the problem that all Australian companies have got at the moment.
'We don't want any more pleasantries, our small, medium-sized, and even large companies in Australia need some action by this government.
'Something has to be done.'
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