Tag: Productivity Commission

Govt ‘head in the sand’ on copyright reform

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s national startup body has slammed the government for its “head in the sand” approach to tech policy after it failed to act on a series of recommendations to...

Cost of industry support balloons

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The cost to taxpayers of government industry support measures continues to balloon, according to the Productivity Commission’s latest Trade and Assistance Review. And Commissioner Peter Harris has further warned...

Perrottet targets new productivity

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The NSW government has announced it will establish its own Productivity Commission to spearhead policy reforms to make it easier to do business in the state, including a review...

PC’s grim view of finance sector

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Productivity Commission’s draft report into competition in the Australian financial system says we lack robust price rivalry, that FinTechs and neo-banks should have better market access, and that...

Angus Taylor on data regulation

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The government will look to regulate the use of individuals’ data by tech giants like Google and Apple if the private sector can’t enforce its own standards, Assistant Minister...

Govt quietly flags IP changes

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
The Turnbull government quietly slipped out its response to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into intellectual property arrangements last Friday afternoon, supporting a recommendation to wipe out second level IP...

Taylor’s data sharing taskforce

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
The federal government has formed a taskforce to wrangle its response to the Productivity Commission’s report on data use which will investigate privacy settings and whether we are getting...

Calls for an end to Telstra ‘subsidy’

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
The Productivity Commission has released a report calling for the called for phasing out of the Telecommunications Universal Service Obligation (TUSO). The TUSO is a subsidy the government (which...

Economy needs better data sharing

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Productivity Commission (PC) has released its report on ‘Data Availability and its Use’. It recommends a new Data Sharing and Release Act, and the creation of the position...