Tag: deregulation

Over 160,000 Australian Workers to Be Eligible for Interstate Jobs Under New JobPass Scheme

The federal government has announced the expanded JobPass scheme, which will is expected to reduce regulations for licensed and registered workers who wish to apply for interstate jobs. The scheme is designed to address impediments to labour mobility across the state. It would allow licensed tradies in one jurisdiction to be immediately considered ‘registered’ interstate…


Five Truths About Grid Reliability and Deregulation

Commentary Before electricity had been restored last month, false claims proliferated as swiftly as the outages themselves. Misguided criticisms included excessive blame levied at wind power, while others have fallen into the trap of blaming “deregulation” of the power industry. That’s dead wrong for two reasons: power markets aren’t “deregulated” for reliability purposes and the data show…


Biden Tosses Trump’s Deregulation Orders

President Joe Biden has rolled back executive orders of President Donald Trump aimed at cutting federal regulatory burden, hinting the already enormous regulatory regime may spring back to that of its pre-Trump days. In two Jan. 20 executive orders, Biden nixed about a dozen orders of Trump’s that pertained to regulatory reform, including one on…