Abbott piles red tape on bonfire

By Bianca Hall
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:55pm, first published March 23 2014 - 3:00am

To borrow from Tony Abbott's collection of tortuously mixed metaphors, the government will soon light a veritable bonfire of red tape in Parliament, throwing more than 9500 regulations and 1000 acts of Parliament onto the hungry flames.

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