Australian businesses are continuing to be shackled by costly red tape, a new scorecard by the Business Council of Australia has found.
The BCA 2010 Scorecard of Red Tape Reform provides an assessment, in summary and full form, of the regulation-making processes of federal, state and territory governments.
The scorecard shows that, in general, more needs to be done by all jurisdictions to ensure processes are in place to curb unwarranted regulatory overreach in Australia.
It follows a 2007 scorecard that found considerable scope existed to improve all jurisdictions’ regulatory review systems.