TY  - Transcript

AU  - Gary Banks



PY  - 2011
T1  - Australia's mining boom: what's the problem?
PB  - Productivity Commission


DO  - https://doi.org/APO-25383
UR  - https://apo.org.au/node/25383

AB  - In this address to the session 'Managing the Growth Shock' at the Economic and Social Outlook Conference in Melbourne on 30 June 2011, Gary Banks discusses the role for policy in the current mining boom.

"Australia’s past reform successes have generally been founded on a clear understanding of problems warranting policy solutions. Where policy initiatives have struggled or ended badly, this has often been due either to misdiagnosis, or a failure to achieve sufficient public understanding or acceptance of the problem at hand and what policy has to offer."
ER  -