date:Aug 03, 2012
sinesses and consumers group have to engage in public policy development and comment on the decisions that will most affect them.
Make no mistake, this is a real step backwards and the Governments decision to impose this new rules unilaterally and without consultation should send a shiver down the spine of anyone with a interest in public policy formulation.
Announcing this on the day Parliament rose for a long summer recess lasting several months was extraordinarily cynical.
Whitehouse said