March 15, 2017
KEY POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
The ACTU believes that the proposed amendments should not be supported.
Australia’s local industries require more rather than less support in order to sustain and create job growth. Manufacturing in particular plays a large role in innovation and needs to be supported by relevant government policies.
In addition, further reforms are necessary to ensure that Efic’s procedures are consistent with international standards and that taxpayers can be assured that their money is not contributing to human rights abuses.
March 8, 2017
Independent Review into the Future Security of the National Electricity Market
February 10, 2017
February 10, 2017
Background
• Since June 2016 the Productivity Commission has been running an inquiry that seeks to determine “the services within the human services sector that are best suited to the increased application of competition, contestability and informed user choice”.
• Note the lack of any analysis of ‘if’ they would benefit.
• The inquiry has now gone through two rounds of submissions in the first stage, which aimed at ‘identifying sectors for reform’. The sectors identified are:
o Social housing
o Public hospitals
o Specialist palliative care
o Public dental
o Services for remote indigenous communities
o ‘Grant-based’ family and community services
• Today’s submission is to stage 2 of the inquiry, where specific reforms are beginning to be proposed for each sector.
