Editing Deregulation (section)

=== Australia ===
Having announced a wide range of deregulatory policies, [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] announced the policy of "Minimum Effective Regulation" in 1986. This introduced now-familiar requirements for "regulatory impact statements", but compliance by governmental agencies took many years. The labor market under the Hawke/Keating governments operated under the [[Prices and Incomes Accord]]. In the mid-90s [[John Howard]]'s [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal Party]] began deregulation of the labor market with the [[Workplace Relations Act 1996]], going much further in 2005 through its [[WorkChoices]] policy. However, this was reversed under the following [[Rudd Government (2007–10)|Rudd Labor government]].