Business forum agrees on 6 principals: PM

The inaugural COAG Business Advisory Forum has agreed on six priorities, including national environmental reform, as a way of cutting government red tape.

The other areas include the treatment of major development proposals, the rationalisation of climate change litigation programs, further energy market reform, development assessments, and best practice approaches to risk-base deregulation.

“We are determined to get this done,” Prime Minister Julia Gillard told reporters in Canberra on Thursday.

The priorities will be put to a leaders’ meeting of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) on Friday.

Ms Gillard said the forum decided to conduct a “red tape challenge” by asking big and small business to identify those nuisance regulations which no longer had a purpose or which duplicated regulations in other areas.

Those regulations could then be done away with, she said.

“Governments can act and clear this undergrowth of regulation that doesn’t need to be there.”

Governments had heard the voice of Australian businesses, Ms Gillard said.

“Tomorrow in COAG we will take action, having heard that voice.”

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