First, it is important to establish the extent of the shift in regulatory styles that has taken place. I will do this by means of a quick tour of the current Australian regulatory landscape. However, as some comparisons made along the way will indicate, in many areas the picture is quite similar in a range of other countries. In sum, it is fair to say that process and performance-based regulation is prominent in all of the major fields in which social regulation exists. That said, it is important to recognise that these three categories of regulation are not mutually exclusive and that many regulatory structures are likely to include elements of two or more regulatory types.