Portfolio — 6 May 2026

Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino released the mid-year update of the Regulatory Initiatives Grid on 6 May, a bi-annual publication cataloguing 89 regulatory initiatives across government agencies and regulators [TA-260506-treasu-66ffad7cc345]. The RIG is designed to give businesses a consolidated forward view of incoming regulation, with Mulino framing it as a practical tool for reducing duplication and allowing firms to plan with greater certainty.

The mid-year update explicitly positions the grid within the Government's broader regulatory reform program, connecting it to work underway at the Department of Finance and the Council of Financial Regulators' Better Regulation Roadmap [TA-260506-treasu-66ffad7cc345]. Mulino's central argument is that streamlined, targeted and proportionate regulation is not an end in itself but a means to lift investment, foster innovation and drive economic growth.

The Treasury's approach treats regulatory clarity as a competitiveness lever — the portfolio framing is that cutting regulatory friction has the same productive effect as removing a constraint on economic speed. No parliamentary activity was recorded for this date; the media release is the sole source stream for this Note.