Consequently, there is no justification for legal enforcement of occupational demarcations based on educational qualifications. In medical professions, patronage by the Government should make way for the rights of patients to decide what happens to their body. Professional liability insurance and the risk of litigation and exposure by patients will sufficiently discourage incompetence among professionals. Adoption by medical professionals of more commercial practices, such as advertisement of their performance record, will furthermore raise standards. C. No Role for the Government Let's face it, education has become one of Australia's biggest earnest of foreign currencies.
Society is full of closed shops and tertiary education institutions are selling entree tickets.
The problem is that the Government encourages such practices. Some argue that the existing educational institutions should be protected from commercial enterprises that might provide substandard education. But if the existing institutions really provided anything worthwhile in educational respect, they did not need government funding, they did not need legal protection by the Government of an exclusive position and they did not need all the other privileges, such as exemption from copyright law, etc. Consumers are better protected by the Trade Practices Act. Any authority that tries to combine consumer protection with supervision over institutes, risks conflicts of interests.