By The Editor
Yarra City Council’s decision to shelve a plan to charge cafes and restaurants a fee for using outdoor heaters in winter is very welcome and an important win for local businesses.
Council decision on outdoor heaters welcomed
June 8, 2011
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Victorian red tape reduction welcome, but more to be done
October 1, 2010By Wayne Kayler-Thomson
Victorian businesses will be sure to welcome yesterday’s announcement that the Victorian Government is delivering more than $401 million worth of red tape cuts per year, and is on target to increase this saving to $500 million by July 2012.
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Red Tape Watch: More cuts to red tape to be investigated
July 14, 2010By Chris James
A new inquiry by the Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission into streamlining the regulatory framework was announced by Treasurer John Lenders this week.
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Red Tape Watch: Federal Government fails to live up to red tape promises
May 19, 2010By Chris James
According to the AFR (18/5), the Federal Government has failed to live up to its election promise to slash red tape on business by failing to adhere to its “one-in, one-out” regulation policy.
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Red Tape Watch: standard reporting a step in the right direction
March 30, 2010By Megan Cox
Businesses are continuing to face red tape nightmares, and this has been confirmed by a new Federal Government report that identifies at least 9,600 online forms which businesses are forced to use in dealing with three different levels of government (Australian Financial Review, pg. 08, 30/3/10).
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Red is the New Black – iconic designer a red tape fashion victim
November 26, 2009By Erin the Employer
The Age today has reported that one of Melbourne and Australia’s fashion stalwarts has called it quits due to red tape woes.
The closure of Jenny Bannister’s iconic fashion business should not be dismissed as an unfortunate incident of interest only to fabulous nobodies.
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Red Tape Watch: Charities tangled up in bureaucratic web
October 15, 2009By The Editor
A report in The Australian indicates that even charities are getting tangled up in a web of red tape. Currently, the regulatory regimes that govern charities are splintered according to state, which has led to significant compliance costs.
And how must charities meet these costs? Through their primary source of profit: donations.
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Red Tape Watch
October 8, 2009By Chris James
By and large, our members don’t go into business with the express purpose of filling in paperwork or negotiating bureaucratic obstacles.
However, most inevitably find the regulatory burden frustrating and time consuming, with VECCI surveys consistently nominating red tape as one of the key business bugbears.
In this section, we try and get a grip on the problem and list the red tape burdens that are bugging our members, as well as those that are looming. More positively, we also list those that VECCI has managed to assist in pushing away.
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Welcome to the VECCI Blog!
March 25, 2009 
News travels fast. Often, too fast. And in today’s working environment, there often aren’t enough hours in the day to keep up.
That’s why we’ve created this blog.
A news resource, a discussion forum, a portal to VECCI’s range of online tools: The VECCI Blog has the potential to be many things for many people. But it’s all united by a single goal: to keep you informed and connected online.
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