AUSTRALIA needs to create a seamless national economy, including consistent road transport laws, according to the president of the Business Council of Australia (BCA), Graham Bradley.
“We must harmonise and reduce duplicative, costly and unjustifiably varied business regulation across state boundaries,” Bradley says.
“To give but one small example of the myriad of such long-overdue reforms – why, in 2010, must a truck transporting goods from Melbourne to Brisbane be subject to three different state laws in relation to vehicle registration, safe load regulation, driver licensing and road taxes?”
According to Bradley, it is necessary for all state governments and the federal government to support the reform process through the Council of Australia Governments (COAG).
“Reforms of this kind are not the stuff of grand vision statements or simplistic sound bites. As every business manager knows, improving performance requires attention to detail to capture, over time, a myriad of small, sometimes incremental, but collectively significant improvements. The same is true for the nation’s economy,” he says.
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