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A review of Trump's stated war on regulations doesn't find many successful repeals. But it is hurting regulatory enforcement in quieter ways.
The billionaires, business leaders and other elites who gathered in Davos praised the president's policies, yet research on the politics of economic growth suggests it's too soon to celebrate.
The Trump administration is committed to deregulating industry, as it's done with the EPA Clean Power Plan. But a historian shows how regulations have actually benefited both industry and consumers.
GOP lawmakers say their bills to replace the Affordable Care Act would do a better job than the ACA of controlling rising health care costs, but 40 years of deregulation show it just won't work.
Perhaps there might at least now be a pause on further deregulation when it comes to buildings in the UK
Electricity retailers need to make their prices and offers more transparent and easier for customers to understand, or risk having to submit to price regulation to drive down bills.
The risks posed by deregulating the vocational education and training sector have serious impacts for large sections of the labour market.
Some of the bush tales about regional news that are circulating in the ongoing debate about media reform need to be debunked.
Australia's "looming gas shortage" - the basis for calls to deregulate coal seam gas - may not be real after all. But gas prices are still set to rise, and that's an area where coal seam gas could help.
The Australian government’s target of A$1 billion of red-tape savings for the year is now in sight ($700 million up to March 2014 and a claimed $300 million from the carbon tax repeal plus Future of Financial…
Repeal day – a political stunt copied from David Cameron’s government in the UK – will go ahead in Australia this Wednesday. The very fact the government plans to repeal some 10,000 regulations suggests…
Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s “biggest bonfire of regulation in our country’s history” will allow some organisations to opt out of state compensation schemes and instead operate under the Commonwealth’s…
Prime minister Tony Abbott said his government would create “the biggest bonfire of regulations in our country’s history…
Arguments for reform of workplace relations never go away. The central claim made by numerous commentators is that reform aimed at “freeing up” the labour market and workplaces is the key to improving…
Tipping might one day become entrenched in Australia’s drinking and dining experience as it has in America. Research found…
From a three-and-a-half year high last month, business confidence data for October shows the post-election honeymoon is over, with business conditions continuing to underperform in non-mining sectors…
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Visitor, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) & Chair of Foundation for Effective Markets and Governance, Australian National University
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Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Deakin University
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Professor of Law, University of Melbourne
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Holcim (US) Professor at the Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Professor of History and Public Affairs, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair, University of Texas at Austin
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University
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Theme Leader, Centre for Workplace Leadership, Professor of Management & Associate Dean (Global Engagement), University of Melbourne
