Red tape costs the Australian economy at least $176 billion, or 11 per cent of GDP, each year in foregone economic output. Environmental red tape and regulation in particular has grown significantly in recent decades. This report provides an objective measure of the growth of federal environmental legislation since the creation of the first Commonwealth [...]

This report illustrates the increasing regulatory burden, and the extent to which legal rights continue to be breached in new laws passed every year. This has been measured by assessing the volume and content of all legislation passed by the federal parliament in 2015. In 2015, 6,482 pages of new legislation was passed by the [...]