Allen Consulting Group 2004, ‘Governments Working Together: a Better Future for all Australians’, a report prepared by the Group for the Victorian Premier as part of the Victorian Government’s ‘Shared Future’, project, as at 30 May 2007, at http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/ CA256D800027B102/Lookup/Commonwealth_State_Relations/$file/ PDF%20Final%20Version.pdf

Banks, G. 2004, ‘NCP and beyond: an agenda for national reform’, as at 30 May 2007, at http://www.pc.gov.au/speeches/cs20041206/index.html

Bracks, S. 2005, ‘Governments Working Together - A Third Wave of National Reform - A New National Reform Initiative for COAG’, based on Allen Consulting Group 2004, as at 30 May 2007, at http:// www.dpc.vic.gov.au/CA256D800027B102/Lookup/A_Third_Wave_of_National_Reform/ $file/A%20Third%20Wave%20of%20National%20Reform.pdf

Butler, G. 1996, ‘National Competition policy: the downside’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, v 55, no 2, June: pp. 104-105.

Carroll, P. and M. Painter (eds) 1995, Microeconomic reform and federalism, Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.

Carroll, P. 2006, ‘Regulatory Impact Analysis: promise and reality’, a paper presented to the ECPR/CRI Conference ‘Frontiers of Regulation. Assessing Scholarly Debates and Policy Challenges’, University of Bath, September 7-8 2006.

Charles, C. 1995, ‘COAG and Competition Policy — A South Australian Perspective’, chapter seven in Carroll and Painter (eds), Microeconomic Reform and Federalism, Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.

COAG 2005, Review of National Competition Policy, as at 30 May 2007, at http://www.coag.gov.au/meetings/030605/index.htm#com_policy

— 2006a, A New National Reform Agenda, as at 30 May 2007, at http://www.coag.gov.au/meetings/100206/index.htm

— 2006b, National Reform Agenda (NRA): Human Capital, Competition and Regulatory Reform, as at 30 May 2007, at http:// www.coag.gov.au/meetings/140706/index.htm#reform

— 2007. National Reform Agenda, as at 30 May 2007, at http:// www.coag.gov.au/meetings/130407/index.htm#mental

Charles, C. 2001, ‘Reflections on National Competition Policy’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, v. 60, no. 3, September, pp. 120-121.

Churchman, S. 1996, ‘National competition policy: its evolution and implementation: a study in intergovernmental relations’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, v 55, no 2, June, pp. 97-99.

Deighton-Smith, R. 2000, ‘National Competition Policy: key lessons for policy-making and its implementation’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, v 60, no 3, September, pp. 29-41.

Emerson, C, 2007. ‘Lifting productivity growth by reducing business regulation’, as at the

Australian Labor Party website at 9 January 2008, at http://www.alp.org.au/download/now/lifting_productivity_ growth_by_reducing_business_regulation_22apr07.pdf

Fels, A. 1995, ‘Competition Policy, COAG and the Future’, chapter six in Carroll and Painter (eds), ‘Microeconomic Reform and Federalism’, Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.

Harman, E. 1996, ‘The National Competition Policy: A Study of the Policy Process and Network’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 31 (2): pp. 205-224.

Hawke, R. 1987, ‘The Commonwealth Record’, 11(36), 1598.

Hollander, R. 2006, ‘National Competition Policy, Regulatory Reform and Australian Federalism’, Australian Journal of Public Administration’, 65 (2), pp. 33-47, June.

Howard, J. 2005, ‘Statement on Workplace relations reform’, House of Representatives, Hansard, p 39, 26 May.

IAC 1987, Annual Report 1986-87’, AGPS, Canberra.

Kelly, P. 1992, The End of Certainty. The Story of the 1980s, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.

McAllister, I. and R. Moore 1991, Party, Strategy and Change, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne.

OECD 1987, Structural Adjustment and Economic Performance, OECD, Paris.

— 2005, Economic Survey of Australia, OECD, Paris.

Painter, M. 1998, Collaborative Federalism- Economic Reform in Australia in the 1990s, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.

Productivity Commission 2005, Review of National Competition Policy Reforms, Report no. 33, Canberra.

— 2007, Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation, Research Report, Melbourne.

Quiggin, J. 2004, ‘Economic Policy’, chapter seven in Manne, R. (ed), The Howard Years, Black Inc. Agenda, Melbourne.

Thomas, C. 1996, ‘Why national competition policy?’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, v 55, no 2, June, pp. 100-103.

Wanna, J., J. Foster and B. Head 1991, in E. McCoy and B. Head (eds) Deregulation or Better Regulation? Macmillan.