PM moves to cut red tape for businesses
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has announced plans to examine red tape in mining and other key industries as part of a push to ramp up Australia's economy. In a speech to business leaders in Perth last week, Mr Morrison said he had charged his assistant minister Ben Morton with investigating the levels of existing bureaucratic hurdles, with the government’s previous red tape-cutting initiatives already creating savings of $5.8 billion. Addressing the WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr Morrison said he wants to go further, shifting the onus to business and industry to identify the delays, using Donald Trump’s economic plan as the inspiration. “This will be a renewed focus on regulatory reform but from a different angle,” Mr Morrison...