Angus Taylor invents the world’s freshest policy pitch!

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Some coverage of his time in public life — including, to our shame, in Crikey — may have allowed the public to draw the conclusion, once or twice, that Taylor suffered some limitations as a policy formulator, or as an orator, or an administrator, a social media poster, or, in general, as a contributor to the public square.

Well, today there is egg on our face. He’s only gone and come up with the most innovative policy pitch in Australian history:

I mean, that’s inspiring. No-one likes red tape, and getting rid of it would save SO much money. Why has no-one ever thought of simply cutting red tape?

That said, genius is never without precedent. Taylor may have been influenced by some other policy innovators when putting this particular announcement together.

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers, for example, may think Taylor has had a glance at his homework. Ahead of May’s budget this year, Chalmers noted that “one of the best ways to ­address the long-term productivity challenge that we inherited in our economy is to reduce red tape where we can and make it easier for business to grow, and that will be a feature of the budget.”

That said, maybe Chalmers was actually stealing inspiration from Taylor, given that, in January 2025 when Taylor was shadow treasurer under the leadership of Peter Dutton, he promised to “cut red tape for small businesses by introducing a capped tax deduction of $20,000 for business-related meal and entertainment expenses”.

Dutton’s predecessor in the Liberal leadership, Scott Morrison, promised that his government was “cutting red tape, $300 million worth for small business” in November 2018. Although that must have hit some snags, because by July 2019, Morrison was once again promising to overhaul red tape to “provoke the much needed ‘animal spirits’ in our economy”.

But surely there can be no greater influence on Taylor’s priorities than former prime minister Tony Abbott.

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