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Australia news live: business council plan to cut ‘$110bn red tape' including building codes and environmental assessments
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Date: 2025-08-14T20:30:12.000Z
Title: Welcome
Content: Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I'm Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories to get you started.
Before next week's economic summit, the Business Council of Australia has outlined a vision to relieve business owners from what it calls the country's '$110bn red tape burden' as the federal government hunts for a solution to the nation's withered productivity. More coming up.
The war in the Pacific ended 80 years ago and a ceremony at the Australian War Memorial later today will remember the service personnel who gave their lives fighting the Japanese. We have more coming up.
