100 radical ideas to transform Australia

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    Just saw this and thought of you Hawkeye :)

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    Assuming the budget gets through unchanged these ones can be ticked off:

    3 Abolish the Clean Energy Fund
    29 Eliminate the National Preventative Health Agency
    30 Cease subsidising the car industry
    47 Cease funding the Australia Network

    These ones have been partially started:

    11 Introduce fee competition to Australian universities
    18 Eliminate family tax benefits
    52 Reduce the size of the public service from current levels of more than 260,000 to at least the 2001 low of 212,784
    82 Abolish the Australian Human Rights Commission <One commissioner axed>
    :)

    Based on their other promises (some strong some not so), hopefully we can also tick these off:

    1 Repeal the carbon tax, and don't replace it. It will be one thing to remove the burden of the carbon tax from the Australian economy. But if it is just replaced by another costly scheme, most of the benefits will be undone.
    2 Abolish the Department of Climate Change
    4 Repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
    31 Formalise a one-in, one-out approach to regulatory reduction
    43 Repeal the mining tax
    44 Devolve environmental approvals for major projects to the states
    48 Privatise Australia Post
    49 Privatise Medibank
    56 Abolish the Baby Bonus -< This was done under Labor with bipartisan support>
    60 Remove all remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers to international trade
    61 Slash top public servant salaries to much lower international standards, like in the United States
    75 Privatise the Snowy-Hydro Scheme
    87 Negotiate and sign free trade agreements with Australia's largest trading partners, including China, India, Japan and South Korea
    93 Abolish the luxury car tax
    99 Rule out the introduction of mandatory pre-commitment for electronic gaming machines
     

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