After 60 collective years of wrangling, public policy reform in Australia falls into three categories: the fast, the slow, and the wickedly hard.
On fast policies, the 1988 tariff reform took less than 12 months, albeit after years of advocacy. On slow ones, look no further than the 2021 superannuation reforms – a poster child of highly contested reform.
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Karen Chester is a former Deputy Chair of the Productivity Commission and ASIC.
