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"The Morrison government has shelved its plan to make Australians produce
identification before casting their vote. Yesterday it withdrew the Electoral
Legislation Amendment (Voter Integrity) Bill 2021 it had hoped to pass in time
for the 2022 election.
The reason is political. The announcement came hours after Tasmanian
independent senator Jacqui Lambie said she would vote against the bill.
With rebel Coalition backbenchers in both the House of Representatives and
Senate vowing to vote against all legislation in a bid to force the Morrison
government’s hand on vaccine mandates, it reportedly did a deal with the
Opposition to drop the bill in return for Labor supporting another bill, to
oblige charities to reveal donors.
But it should have dropped the bill as a matter of good policy.
There are various ways in which such proposals might be analysed, but an
economic framework of cost-benefit analysis would be a useful starting point.
As the name implies, the aim is to weigh up the potential benefits of a policy
to determine if they outweigh the costs.
The Australian government says it is “committed to the use of cost–benefit
analysis to assess regulatory proposals in order to encourage better decision
making”. Had it done a cost-benefit analysis of the bill, it’s hard to see how
it could have introduced it in the first place."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
