Talking of reforms, how much is left of the micro reform era.
Having privatised telecomms and (most electricity), government is now building/commissioning broadband network and electricity generation and storage.
Competition and choice in human services comprehensively disastrous with for-profit providers (aged care, VET)
PPP model broken ever since GFC (based on UK PFI, which Conservative government tweaked, then dumped altogether)
Outsourcing has been disastrous in many cases, most recently quarantine and contract tracing (again, UK further down this road, moving to insourcing). Outsourcing policy advice a particular problem
Financial deregulation produced GFC, hugely costly financial sector, promised benefits never delivered
Labour market reform has made workers worse off (OK, this probably counts as a success for those who introduced it).
Successes: airlines (at least until pandemic), deregulated shopping hours, ending arbitrary differences between states, HECS (at least when combined with demand-driven expansion of places).
Probably irrelevant by now: tariff reform. Decline of large scale manufacturing inevitable, even with tariffs.
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