Comment

The Belcher review: an overdue corrective to Abbott's war on 'red tape'

By Paddy Gourley
Updated April 24 2018 - 8:43pm, first published November 27 2015 - 5:11pm

Of all the wars ignited by the late Abbott government, the one on "red tape" got off to a rocky start. It promised "deregulation units" in all departments; that is, more regulation in the cause of less regulation. Even sillier was a threat to link regulation reductions to secretary and senior executives' performance agreements and pay, a move that would have chagrined those in immigration and national security who, at the behest of ministers, have been laying on "red tape" with a trowel.

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