Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting on Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Normally I could be pretty brief because there are not any alternatives from the other side. As I have indicated, for 12 long years the Liberal and National parties did nothing in this reform area. They are a policy-free zone. They made little if any attempt to tackle the complex regulatory duplication—the web of regulations, often contradictory, that exist between the states and territories. They did nothing in almost 12 long years.