Economic Roundtable

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Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Bruce Billson interview with Leon Delaney.

2CC Canberra

Subject: Economic Roundtable  

Leon Delaney 

Tomorrow it will be 2 weeks since the commencement of the federal government's economic reform round table, which was originally being promoted as a productivity round table. 

Treasurer's roundtable 'reform directions' should focus on small business

Originally published in The Canberra Times

By Bruce Billson

It's been just over a week since the government's Economic Reform Roundtable was held.

Was the three-day event productive? I'd say yes. There was lots of discussion and views being put around the table. There was a clear recognition of the need to ease the crippling regulatory burden and restoring incentives to take risk, invest and innovate.