Sidelined Harper competition law review cost $3m in pay and travel for authors

By Heath Aston
Updated September 4 2015 - 8:18pm, first published 7:55pm
Review panel chairman Professor Ian Harper. Photo: Bradley Kanaris
Review panel chairman Professor Ian Harper. Photo: Bradley Kanaris
Small Business Minister Bruce Billson was left red-faced this week when the major recommendation from the Harper review was shelved. Photo: Rob Homer
Small Business Minister Bruce Billson was left red-faced this week when the major recommendation from the Harper review was shelved. Photo: Rob Homer

The 550-page Harper review of competition laws, which Labor claims has been "punted off into the never never" due to divisions in the Abbott cabinet, cost $3 million in salaries and travel costs alone for the expert panel and 16 bureaucrats supporting them.

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