Liberty First
QLFS: Free Market Foundation urges adoption of labour law exemptions for the long-term unemployed
The national minimum wage and rigid hiring and dismissal rules have become weapons of exclusion.
11 November 2025
The national minimum wage and rigid hiring and dismissal rules have become weapons of exclusion.
Exempt the unemployed from the cause of their unemployment: labour laws.
This crowded Cabinet is difficult to justify in a country of only 62 million people and a GDP of US$400 billion.
What this evidence holistically demonstrates is that the banning of alcohol advertising – whether completely or partially – is no silver bullet.
These are objections to the form of the EEAA rather than its substance.
Planning has become a compliance exercise rather than a tool for adaptation.
And it will only prosper when individuals are free to determine their own economic futures.
The alternative is to adapt to an ageing and potentially smaller population.
The economy is not a static pie, and economic growth is not some game of musical chairs with the same fixed rewards.