Changing Gear: Preparing for a different world

The Hon. Lindsay Tanner, Special Advisor to Lazard and former Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation, delivered the following address at Global Access Partners’ National Economic Review 2011: Australia’s Annual Growth Summit in Sydney on Friday 16 September 2011.

The core theme of today’s discussion is ‘Changing Gear: Preparing for a different world’, and hanging from this is of course the impact of demography. As Keith Suter pointed out, it’s not true to say that demography is destiny. But, to steal a concept from Paul Goodman, demography is an awful lot of destiny.

Better Regulation – There’s always room for improvement

A bottom up approach – the start of which is simply listening to those who are affected by regulation on a day to day basis – can help limit the costs and improve the effectiveness of regulation.

The path to prosperity through deregulation

A ‘one-in', ‘one-out' approach to new Federal legislation requires that a Minister seeking to impose new regulation must try and find offsetting reductions in regulatory burden.

Bringing government to the people through the web

How do we adapt the static and process driven world of the bureaucracy to the more dynamic and innovative world of the collaborative web?