Robodebt – the automated Centrelink debt issuance program that was found invalid by a federal court last month – is not just an embarrassment for the government. It is the first truly twenty-first...
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...
The Morrison government bills its proposed digital platform reforms, announced on Thursday, as “world-leading”. That may be true, in the same way that China’s “Great...
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 research released today...
“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...
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...
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...
A new research brief by free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs details the extent of Australia’s small business crisis. “To meet its election commitment to oversee the creation of...
A new way of measuring and cutting red tape with demonstrated success in the United States and Canada is being promoted in Australia by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. A...
Nearly exactly the same things said about social media today could have been said in the middle of the 15th century about the development of movable type and the printing press. People will use...
At every turn businesses are weighed down by red tape that prevents growth, discourages job creation, and sucks resources away from productive activity. Adding to the burden is the unknown nature...
American founding father Benjamin Franklin once wrote: “Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” Since...
