I am afraid Valens that this joint Deloittes / IPA study is a good example of a lot of noise with little information which provides little in the way of realistic solutions.
Wow , 250 billion annual burden of rules. Solution? Get rid of all of them ? Great , I can pour my oil down the drain. No longer have to check the truck brakes until they fail. Can run the blokes 20 hours a day , tired ? Nothing a few pick me ups wont solve.
The problem with this type of report it assumes all regs are useless. People need to read the ''tragedy of the commons'' .
Now that is not to say that compliance doesn't need pruning , and like all aspects of business , constantly monitored. What was useful and cost effective , last week , maybe not now. But hyperbolic reports like this one worse than useless , as they are so ludicrous that they make meaningful attempts at modifying compliance more difficult.
On the pretty little graph, take WA , headcount rise less than population rise cost: less than inflation. Also , no sign of what the actual costs are , ie cost per person , cost per capita to service. So , in summary not much use.
And just to remind people , we are talking about Griffin , a failure of private enterprise here.
