Australia run by monkeys, according to straight-talking chef.

Robert Marchetti calls a spade a spade:

"The government are a bunch of monkeys who don't understand business," he said.

"We're not living in the 1960s anymore. Australia has its head stuck up its a*** [a** in some markets: ed] on IR."

For six years, industry bodies and business leaders have been pulling their punches on market re-regulation, let alone the vast swathes of social engineering wrought by Canberra. Yet it takes one little hot-headed chef just a few choice words to cut through the crap.