The State and local governments aren't helping either. Anyone else here who is involved with a small business (whether in manufacturing or otherwise) will know that the state charges have skyrocketed over the past few years, to the extent that a lot of businesses are becoming unviable.
The number of idiotic licenses you have to apply and pay for (paperwork and ready cash) to simply operate is staggering. None of them make anything safer, greener or more efficient, they're just money spinners for the States to cover their beureaucratic blow-outs.
There was something in the local paper this weekend about how less than fifty cents of every dollar allocated to Queensland health spending makes it out of George Street. Half the health money is funding flunkies, paperwork and beaureaucratic crap. No wonder there are no beds available and people spend hours parked in an ambulance before they can get into casualty.