[governance] Rupert Murdoch Says Businesses Should Have A Larger Say in Public Policy

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Which is much the same call that I hear civil society making - each for its 
own reasons

It is simply a symptom of excessive or ham handed regulation in some areas, 
I'd expect.



On 18 July 2014 6:07:10 am Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org> wrote:

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> Rupert Murdoch echoes the calls of IG multistakeholderists, writ large
> to all of public policy.  Says governments should "take a back seat".
>
> http://goo.gl/NAZCfY
>
> - From the Australian Associated Press:
>
> ## Media mogul tells B20 meeting in Sydney that companies must be
> allowed to help shape public policy ##
>
> [snip]
> > Rupert Murdoch says business has a right to speak out on public
> > policy matters, even on issues not directly related to their area
> > of operation.
> >
> > "Business is just as entitled to express its opinion as unions
> > are," the News Corporation executive chairman told the B20 summit
> > of business leaders in Sydney.
> >
> > "The trouble, I find, is usually unions represent hundreds of
> > thousands of voters whereas a business represents just one."
> >
> > Murdoch said business had a role to play in shaping public policy
> > in a democracy.
> >
> > "If we feel we have a contribution to make to the debate we should
> > do so. Certainly my newspapers do so every day and we far from
> > regularly win the argument.
> >
> > "It's very important that, if we live in a democracy, with real
> > entrepreneurship, you've got to have a world of ideas to debate."
> >
> > Murdoch said businesses should be involved in shaping public policy
> > and also suggested governments needed to loosen constraints on
> > business.
> >
> > "You should be leaving the public, by the normal processes of
> > demand, to provide business with the opportunities to get on with
> > life and get the governments to take a back seat," he said.
> >
> > The B20 is a meeting of 400 business leaders from the world's
> > leading economies, gathered in Sydney to provide a list of
> > recommendations to the G20 group of government leaders when they
> > meet in Brisbane in November
>
> [/snip]
>
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