Tariff Board News Today

The Financial Review helped forge the political and intellectual opposition to the nation’s 20th-century industry protectionism, which was once a bipartisan article of Australian faith, akin to the fair go.

Wounded twice, first at Gallipoli and later on the Western Front, the man who is perhaps our most overlooked Prime Minister confided the thought he had been spared for a reason. That purpose, as Paul Hasluck noted upon his death in 1967, was to serve Australia. In that cause, at home and abroad, he admirably succeeded

Continuing to apply the Productivity Commission’s traditional intellectual rigour will test the mettle of its incoming chair Danielle Wood.

Max Corden established the intellectual, but then politically heretical, case for dismantling Australia’s protectionist tariff wall.

Despite the stock of well-researched and publicly tested policy options available to governments, the potential to “do more harm” is as great as it has ever been.

New chairman Chris Barrett needs to demonstrate that his appointment is designed to protect a great Australian economic institution from such attacks, not to surrender to them.

The most secure supply chain is a well-functioning global trading system, now threatened by the self-sufficiency drive and return of industry policy.

Without warning, at 7pm on July 18 1973, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam slashed every single import tariff at once – starting at midnight. It’s the kind of bold political leadership we rarely see today.

Canadian Plastics magazine turns 80 this summer, and what a long, strange trip it’s been. Here’s a look at our industry from World War II to COVID-19, and all the years in between, as we covered it.

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