Occupational Regulation **

Regulation  Competition 

08/11/85 • Unknown

• A licence does not inform a buyer about who is the best service provider. The effect is to stop competition.

The WA TV Licences

Politics  Regulation 

22/11/85 • Unknown

• The root cause of Australia's economic decline is the subtle corruption of political authority.

Taxis

Protectionism  Regulation  Cronyism 

10/01/86 • Unknown

• Taxi deregulation is the same as any other product or service regulation. There will be winners and losers, but everyone should benefit in the long term.

Privatisation

Competition  Regulation 

25/01/86 • Unknown

• The main purpose of privatisation is increased productivity not obtaining the highest selling price for the underlying asset.

John Burton

Regulation 

Unknown • Unknown

• Relative economic decline should be reversed by deregulation and privatisation.

Housing Interest Rates

Regulation  Monetary Policy  Interest Rates 

Unknown • Unknown

• Regulated interest rates cause those that are unable to obtain regulated money to resort to hire purchase and second mortgages. They also distort housing supply.

Fools or Knaves? The Reith Lectures

Politics  Economics  Regulation 

Unknown • Unknown

• Our current politicians favour interventionism, the question is whether they are knaves or fools? *

EPAC And Gruen On Trade

Protectionism  Regulation  Business 

Unknown • Unknown

• Professor Gruen says that selling below full cost in not regarded as an unfair trading practices within Australia. It smacks of double standards when it is labelled as unfair when done by foreigners.

Lamb Board

Protectionism  Regulation 

Unknown • Unknown

• The board's policies have not been helping Lamb producers.

New Zealand

Regulation 

Unknown • Unknown

• The Lange Labour government has deregulated New Zealand to great success.

Cheer Up Things Are Getting Worse

Industrial Relations  Regulation 

Unknown • Unknown

• Deregulation will force unionist to bear the consequences of their own actions.

The Evatt Foundation Conference

Regulation  Subsidies  Politics  Business  Competition 

Unknown • Unknown

• Public sector monopolies give politicians opportunities to subsidise favoured voters.
• The public benefits the most from competition not private ownership.

Not Published, Doing Business with Too Much Government

Regulation 

Unknown • On the Dry Side

• The primary cause of our economic troubles is our government.
• Every privilege is someone's cost.

NFF, AFE and The Wage Case

Economics  Economics  Regulation  Industrial Relations 

Unknown • On the Dry Side

Commerce and Government Don't Mix

Business  Politics  Regulation  Cronyism 

Unknown • Unknown

• Government operates differently in that only it can legally force people to do it's bidding.
• Market imperfections are most often caused by government interference on behalf of vested interests.

The Rocky Horror Show

Economics  Regulation  Taxation 

Unknown • Unknown

• The deficit should be reduced by cutting government expenditure instead of raising taxes.
• The proven way to economic success is through deregulation.

Not Lazy (Published in the Weekend Australian as Monopolies corner the market in frustration)

Protectionism  Monopoly  Regulation  Business 

21-22/03/87 • Unknown

• Australians are more often frustrated with government regulations than lazy.
• Monopolies are the reason for Australia's lost competiveness than laziness.

Transport and the Economy

Regulation 

Unknown • Unknown

• Transport modes and service should compete on equal terms. The subsidies favouring LPG over petrol should be eliminated.
• Competition between wharves, grain, sugar, container terminals and other port facilities could be greatly enhanced through implementing the Liner Shipping Report

The Campaign Issues

Politics  Regulation  Industrial Relations  Economics 

Unknown • Unknown

• John Howard's policy stances are more like Margaret Thatcher than he is given credit for.
• The important issue is to increase efficiency without which Australia is sunk. Tax cuts matter but not so much as deregulation and industrial relations reform.

Airline Deregulation

Regulation  Industrial Relations 

Unknown • FIN

• The less the airlines are protected from consumer choice, the less that it will pay for employees to go on strike.

Philip Ayres on Fraser

Politics  Regulation 

Unknown • WEE

• Malcolm Fraser was a regulator when he was in office while John Howard was a deregulator.

Private Correspondence

Economics  Regulation  Budget 

Unknown • WEE

• By deregulating our economy, we will be able to pay our public debts.

A Deregulation LED Recovery

Regulation  Economics 

Unknown • WEE

• Deregulating will do more for the economy than getting the people to reduce their living standards.

The Perils of Regulation

Regulation 

Unknown • WEE

• Socialists must decide between their abhorrence of the markets and helping the poor. Only when wealth is created, that it can then be diverted to assist the under-privileged can be help.

The Liberals IR Policy

Industrial Relations  Monopoly  Competition  Regulation 

Unknown • WEE

• To protect the public from monopolies, the best alternative is to allow competition. Any reduction will reduce the pain of getting our economic house in order.

The Politics of Deregulation

Regulation  Politics  Leadership 

Unknown • WEE

• Three things are needed for deregulation: 1) A convergence of elite opinion, 2) An issue must be ripe and 3) some leadership is needed.

A Tale of Two Nations

Regulation  Politics  Economics 

Unknown • Unknown

• The message for Australia and Fiji is that we have a choice between raising our gross national product or lower our standards of living.
• It is either deregulate or decay.

The Coalition

Regulation  Monopoly  Cronyism  Politics 

Unknown • WEE

• It is in the national interest to avoid all unnatural monopolies.
• If the National Party does not want a free wheat market, who will believe them when they call for deregulation.

Reforming Education

Education  Regulation  Competition  Individual Rights 

Unknown • WEE

• The best option to education is to deregulate it and to allow the people the freedom to make their choices wisely.

A Significant Blessing

Regulation 

26/12/88 • The Australian

• The most important policy implemented by the Federal Cabinet has been the deregulation of financial markets.

Chile

Politics  Economics  Regulation 

Unknown • WEE

• Chile to become an economic success story. Reform included reducing tariffs to a flat 15% and substantially deregulating labour market.

Of Wages and Wheat

Industrial Relations  Regulation  Politics 

06/04/89 • FEA

• The Liberals must establish the few important principles now. Continual deregulation is one of them.

Foreign Debt Does Matter

Regulation 

Unknown • WEE

• Foreign debt servicing can only be possible through deregulations, only then can investments flow into Australia and the level of foreign debt reduced.

Senator Walsh

Politics  Economics  Regulation 

Unknown • WEE

• Until we deregulate and privatise, our economic growth remains modest.

Wheat Market Deregulation

Regulation  Politics 

Unknown • WEE

• Wheat market reform was due to the persistence and courage of a Labour Party Minister, Mr John Kerin.

Wool Stocks

Protectionism  Regulation 

05/01/90 • WEE

• Minimum prices reduce the volume consumed; a more radical reform will be the abolishment of the wool reserve price.

The Greens Crying Wolf

Environment  Regulation 

Unknown • WEE

• Even with land degradation being a serious issue, most cases can be avoided by individuals managing their own affairs in an orderly manner. We do not need a totalitarian organisation telling farmers what to do with their land.

What Do We Want from Privatisation?

Protectionism  Regulation  Subsidies  Business 

Unknown • WEE

• The reason why Government privatise public companies is to make them more efficient. The reason why they don't is that they fear the wrath of employees and the subsidised consumers.

Re-regulating The Banks

Regulation 

Unknown • WEE

• The market should help investors distinguish between high-risk investments masquerading as low-risk investments, however, regulations and public ownership is not the answer.

A Voice from The Wilderness

Economics  Regulation 

September 1986 • BOMA

• The failure to understand opportunity cost has resulted in needlessly expensive environmental protection.
• It is not possible to regulate demand and when bureaucrats fail to control human behaviour, they blame economists for the mess.

Housing

Regulation  Property Rights  Economics 

March 1987 • BOMA

• Legislation that reduces a landlord's right to raise rent or to evict tenants reduce supply and drives up rents anyway. Paul Keating deregulates the cost of home purchases while the Minster for Housing regulates rents. It will not work.

Why Privatise

Regulation  Business  Taxation 

September 1987 • Unpublished

• Only when public companies are sold that taxes are paid in meaningful amounts.

Wheat Market Deregulation

Regulation 

Unknown • Rural Times

• Deregulating the wheat market has brought many benefits such as the freedom for the producer to set prices and cheaper prices and better products for consumers.

Waste in NSW

Politics  Economics  Regulation 

Unknown • Rural Times

• The NSW government run on the platform of deregulation and privatisation.
• Micro-economic reform is eliminating waste and failure and is always opposed by people who lose their benefits and seldom praised enough by those who gain from the new efficiencies.

The Davis Report

Protectionism  Regulation  Taxation 

Unknown • Rural Times

• Statutory Marketing Authorities (SMA) has the power to tax producers. If the minister intends to regulate the market to make it efficient and just, individuals must be able to opt out of SMAs and SMAs also be subject to the Trade Practices Act.

Australia Fritters Away Its Wealth

Regulation  Industrial Relations 

09/01/1990 • Asian Wall Street Journal

• Deregulators have had the most success in the financial markets due to the former treasurer's championing financial deregulation and neither the banks nor the bank employees union opposing deregulation.

The Environment

Environment  Law  Regulation  Politics 

Unknown • IPA Review (Institute of Public Affairs)

• Governments thinking of using regulations to protect the environment should take into account any externalities them proceed with caution and having respect for the rule-of-law and democracy.

Nanny's Security Blanket

Regulation  Taxation 

26/02/84 • Sunday Independent

• The government uses our taxes to "educate" us with the government subsidising certain groups to tax payers for their mistake and imposing their will on what we can and cannot do.

Axing the Quangos

Regulation 

06/05/84 • Sunday Independent

• Every regulation develops vested interests who defend it against any attempts to eliminate or reduce it. For example, if the state government were to deregulate the taxi industry, consumers would benefit from cheaper and more convenient travel.

Of Paddington Bear and Medicare

Healthcare  Regulation  Law 

26/08/84 • Sunday Independent

• By using the law without any overview to punish doctors for procedural errors that are hard to get correct, it causes the principle of certainty before the law.

MITI

Business  Regulation 

04/11/84 • Sunday Independent

• The lesson from the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Development (MITI) is that where government interference is the least, the industries have done the best.

MIM Annual Report

Business  Competition  Regulation  Taxation 

18/11/84 • Sunday Independent

• The mining industry is loaded with infrastructure costs which are not asked of other competing sectors of the Australian economy. In order for MIM share price to increase, there will be a need to reduce high levels of industry protection and reducing state taxes.

Who Will Govern Us?

Politics  Philosophy  Regulation 

1/7/1991 • CEDA Head Office in Melbourne

• Why concentrated vested interests will prevail over general interests is due to public choice theory. However, Australia is moving towards a liberal direction and it will depend on how fast we can liberalise our economy compared to other countries.