In 2013, then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott launched a 鈥渨ar on red tape and green tape鈥, which he claimed was 鈥渟uffocating鈥 Australian businesses. The Coalition government even announced a special cutting of red tape day.
No doubt Abbott was able to point to some idiotic and bureaucratic regulations to win public support for cutting so-called red tape that was actually protecting the public or the environment, to allow the corporate rich to pillage and plunder.