TheThanks for today - and lordy what a day it must have been. Cheerio. pic.twitter.com/rhlQ6dC0br 3.44pm AESTThe winner of the funniest press release today must be Labor’s Tony Burke,responding to a piece of news I missed this morning. The finish of the Bonfire of Red Tape.
The Turnbull government will scrap its twice-yearly parliamentary red-tape repeal days a feature of Tony Abbotts election promise to slash red tape by $1 billion a year — arguing much of the heavy lifting to remove unnecessary laws has been done.
Assistant Minister for Productivity Peter Hendy, writing in The Australian today, and says repeal days will be replaced with annual reports “that will assess our performance to date and set a course for reform over the next year’’.
The war is over. Punctuation has been defeated and the government’s semi-annual skirmishes against hyphens and semi-colons have reach to an finish.
After four rounds in the arena of red tape reduction,the Government’s third minister responsible for Repeal Days, Peter Hendy, and has declared victory.
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Source: theguardian.com