Gridlock: Removing barriers to policy reform

The public service has been weakened: often it is not be explained away as the absence of worthwhile reform to do – asked to provide policy advice, is not capable of providing it, and is governments in Australia have failed to progress many reforms that overly pliable in serving the political interests of the government of have sat on the shelf for decades. [...] A simple catalogue of historical reforms, and an analysis not nearly as significant as the tariff reforms of the 1980s; the sale of of OECD recommendations, both show that the pace of reform has Medibank was less significant than the sales of Qantas, Telstra, and indeed slowed. [...] Grattan Institute 2021 9 Gridlock: Removing barriers to policy reform Australian ports, aligning the eligibility ages for superannuation and 2.4 The opportunities for reform the Age Pension, including more of the value of owner-occupied Some explain away the slowdown in reform on the basis that today housing when calculating eligibility for the Age Pension, and raising there are fewer reforms wort. [...] far from clear that the benefits have truly exceeded the costs.19 The Our review of the OECD’s recommendations for Australia over the past Coalition proposed a substantial corporate tax cut, which foundered 48 years is consistent with the oft-cited view that governments in the in the Senate.20 Reforms to childcare benefits removed some of the most recent 20 years have not pursued significant refor. [...] reform today,36 the threat of slow wage growth in future is inherently less salient than the big loss of income that many had endured through But there is little evidence that the overall agendas of the public, media, the recessions of the 1970s and 1980s.