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Productivity Commission's recommendations on IP reform likely to be lost in election haze

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imageRecommendations on intellectual property are likely to be filed away. Flickr/Ross, CC BY

The Productivity Commission aspires to act as the Government’s economic conscience, providing advice that from a neoliberal mindset is rational, but may be politically inconvenient. The Commission has called for a fundamental reworking of...

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