Poll: Local Councils Should Stick To Roads, Rates And Rubbish
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has called on local councils to reduce red tape and stick to their knitting as a new poll confirms Australians’ hostility…
We’ll Not Prosper In A World Tied By Red Tape
While the wider Australian economy struggles under excessive regulatory burden and lack of opportunity, the Canberra swamp charges ahead as a perpetual growth machine. According to Deloitte...
Originally appeared in The Australian
Time To Break The Shackles
Western Australia has always been a fast-moving, entrepreneurial, and successful state. Blessed with an abundance of natural resources, a thriving agricultural sector, and people with go-ahead...
Originally appeared in The West Australian
Red Tape Is Costing Australia $176b A Year
Excessive government regulation is harming the economy, reducing freedom of choice and making people’s lives harder. Becoming a hairdresser in New South Wales requires approximately 1,224 hours of...
Originally appeared in Sky News Australia
Cutting Red Tape Will Drive Growth
Momentum is building for bi-partisan reform between the Western Australia state Labor government and the federal coalition government to cut red tape and boost economic growth. As reported in...
Originally appeared in The West Australian
Cut Red Tape, Get In Black
If Scott Morrison and his government want to deliver an economic boom, they should follow the highly successful template of President Trump in the US and cut red tape. New…
Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
Trump Red Tape Cuts Delivers Economic Boom
“President Trump’s red tape reduction agenda has delivered a once-in-a-generation economic boom in the United States,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research with the free-market think tank the...
PM Red Tape Cuts A Good Start
“It is very encouraging that deregulation and red tape reduction are back on the agenda as economic reform priorities for the government,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research with the…
Red Tape At Record High
Red tape is at a record high, according to forthcoming research by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, reported in today’s The Australian. “Red tape is the…
80-Fold Increase In Environmental Legislation Since 1971
There has been 80-fold increase to Commonwealth environmental regulation since the first Commonwealth environmental department was established in 1971, according to a new report by free market...
Regulatory Dark Matter – Australia’s Secret Red Tape Crisis
Australia has a red tape crisis. And it’s the red tape you can’t see that’s making the problem worse. Kurt Wallace’s new report exposes Regulatory Dark Matter in...
When Regulators Roam Out Of Control
Ask Australian business people and industry representatives in formal meetings about our nation’s regulatory burden, and you will be told that reform is necessary, a governmental inquiry would be...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia