By business editor Peter Ryan, staff The Business Council of Australia has released an economic action plan urging government to comprehensively audit how taxpayer money is prioritised and spent. The 93 recommendations include reforms to taxation, workplace relations, regulation and federal-state relations. "We believe that it is time to review the whole of government in terms of its expenditure, the value we get out of it and, more importantly, what we can afford," BCA president Tony Shepherd told the ABC's AM program. More » |