If there is a subject here that you would like to know more about, please use the form below to search the web for more information. Please also tell us via our feedback link so we can bring you more on that subject. Recently, Scott Balson, a high profile supporter of the One Nation Party, and major Labor government figure, David Hamill, both attacked National Competition Policy in this journal. These attacks variously allege that NCP is an instrument of conspirators and bureaucrats gone mad. Yet the NCP is a central plank in the economic reforms which have seen this country keep its head above water in times when it might have drowned.
Fear is almost always a function of ignorance, and here there is no exception to that rule.
The economic reforms of the past fifteen years have been difficult, scary and highly disruptive, but they had to happen. I'd like to look at where we gain. Just about everyone understands that when the government spends money, it has to get that money from somewhere. Economics is not so very different. Just as someone must pay for every government expense, so someone must pay for every economic inefficiency.